Bootsplash on Jessie

[franckyg]

Hi,

I'm trying to get bootsplash on raspbian Jessie for 2 days without success.

I followed this : https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/Bootsplash

Replacing spi_bcm2708 by spi_2835.

But I can't get plymouth-drm, is no more available with Jessie. So I continued with plymouth.

My tft is working, I can see picture with fbi, video with mplayer. Driver is correctly load automatically (I can see backlight turning on when starting) but no splashscreen.

Any idea to help me ? Thanks Franck

[Krakawet]

Try to focus first on making plymouth working, you can run it from the console for testing purpose. Once you've done with plymouth, work on it's loading at boot ! If it's correctly launched and still not displaying, try check if the correct screen is selected at boot (the fbcon map10 thing).

You may make it work in another way : Use HDMI as output, and duplicating the display on the touchscreen with fbcp. For early splashscreen/bootsplash with screen mirroring, take at look at technico.top

[alidaf]

I'm in the same boat. The "Bootsplash" wiki page is out of date by referring to spi_bcm2708. When you say that it can be tested by running from the console, does that mean that a keyboard must be attached, or can the console output be triggered on the display by typing the commands via ssh?

[Krakawet]

Sorry alidaf, I can't say how it would work through ssh. But running "sudo plymouth-set-default-theme joy" can give you clue, even on ssh.

I've manage to do this under Jessie, here's some of my implied files (adapt to your own cases).

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules :

spi_bcm2835
fbtft
fb_s6d02a1

/boot/cmdline.txt logo.nologo splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait

/boot/config.txt

initramfs initrd.img-4.4.21-v7+
gpu_mem=128
start_x=0
framebuffer_height=480
framebuffer_width=640
framebuffer_depth=24
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=4
dtoverlay=mz61581,speed=68000000

there is no more need of the "spi" executable described in the bootsplash wiki, nor any other initramfs script (at least for my screens !)

[alidaf]

Thanks for that Krakawet. Still no joy here so I've abandoned it for now. I've submitted a bug report to Debian so I'll wait to hear from that. I need to move on and start on other aspects of the project that have been held up by this.

[pozzugno]

I'm in the same situation. I'd like to have a splash screen on PiTFT early during boot process.

So do you confirm I don't need to install plymouth-drm (that isn't available on jessie)?

[kjyv]

I think you might have an issue with this change in raspian: https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/plymouth/commit/dfb02aa5daa7193398d0801a92d63f78d08295a4 You can check for the message in /var/log/plymouth.log if you add plymouth.debug to /boot/cmdline.txt. I rebuilt the deb package to change the code back to original and got a splash screen on /dev/fb1

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