Confused about how to use splashutils

[Chris Healy]

I have an arm based embedded system that I am trying to integrate
splashutils on. Everything compiles fine. I have an appropriate
theme for the platform and all the correct support in the kernel and
userspace. What I can't figure out is how to actually use it! I've
read the docs but am still confused. The daemon documentation states
to call "splash_util -d..." but "-d" does not seem to be supported.

I've manually started fbsplashd and it successfully executes and
backgrounds itself. When fbsplashd is running, I see the FIFO file
and can echo strings to it and see fbsplashd pick the info up with
strace.

What I don't know is how to have it actually put the theme on the
screen once I've started fbsplashd. Any of the 2-3 other people on
this mailing list have any insight?

Chris