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Those instructions are for EEEPC 701 version (640x480x16bpp splash screens, eg. vga=785 boot param)

• you need to grab fb2tga & tga2fb perl scripts from http://linux.voyager.hr/eee/

To do that, open the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+t and type

wget http://linux.voyager.hr/eee/fb2tga.txt -O fb2tga.pl ; chmod +rx fb2tga.pl
wget http://linux.voyager.hr/eee/tga2fb.txt -O tga2fb.pl ; chmod +rx tga2fb.pl

• if you do not have final images (you can find example at URL above), you'll also need some editing tool like gimp to edit .tga files

apt-get install gimp

• to convert current splash screen to editable Targa (.tga) files use

./fb2tga.pl /boot/startup.fb

for startup splash screen or

./fb2tga.pl /boot/shutdown.fb

for shutdown splash screen. Perl script will create /boot/startup.tga (or /boot/shutdown.tga).

• you can edit created .tga files with gimp

gimp /boot/startup.tga

Make your changes, and save a .tga file. IMPORTANT: when saving, gimp will ask you for two parameteres “RLE compression” and “origin at bottom left” - you MUST uncheck both of them. It won't work otherwise.

• create framebuffer .fb splash screens from .tga files

./tga2fb.pl /boot/startup.tga
./tga2fb.pl /boot/shutdown.tga

That's it. You should enjoy your new splash screens on startup and shutdown now.