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Unia

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Some questions about Plymouth

Hey guys,

I know Plymouth isn't officially supported so I probably won't get much answers here, but I already asked these questions in the Community Contributions Plymouth topic with no responce so I figured I'd try here. Here's my post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1030524

As you can read there, I set Plymouth up correctly and everything's working - but I still have three questions:

1. When I start Plymouth I still see some text before it kicks in. I did all the steps as instructed in the Wiki so I guess Plymouth is starting as early as possible, but can I make this text "dissapear"? It's about loading the kernel and such, maybe it's GRUB related.
2. I'm using GDM as my DM (using Gnome Shell) and it takes quite a while for GDM to load. However, during this loading, Plymouth has already stopped and my screen shows nothing but blackness. Can I keep the Plymouth screen until GDM is ready? I start GDM using the inittab method and I also added xt:5:wait:/usr/bin/chvt 7 to /etc/inittab to not show agetty's login prompt. (Found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DM … h_to_tty7)
3. Will Plymouth play nice with e4rat? I like to use that to speed up boot time.

I hope you can help me figuring these out! Thanks in advance guys!

Last edited by Unia (2011-12-21 14:30:20)

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RomaHagen

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Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 14

Re: Some questions about Plymouth

1. When I start Plymouth I still see some text before it kicks in. I did all the steps as instructed in the Wiki so I guess Plymouth is starting as early as possible, but can I make this text "dissapear"? It's about loading the kernel and such, maybe it's GRUB related.

What text exactly you want to remove?

2. I'm using GDM as my DM (using Gnome Shell) and it takes quite a while for GDM to load. However, during this loading, Plymouth has already stopped and my screen shows nothing but blackness. Can I keep the Plymouth screen until GDM is ready? I start GDM using the inittab method and I also added xt:5:wait:/usr/bin/chvt 7 to /etc/inittab to not show agetty's login prompt. (Found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DM … h_to_tty7)

This requires support from a video driver. Please read this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81406  I also want to achieve smoth transition from Plymouth to X, but no luck yet.