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DeletedUser211210

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Registered: 2016-10-08

Posts: 8

[Solved] Plymouth Install with Intel HD Graphics 4000

Hi !

I'm trying to install Plymouth on my laptop (Intel HD Graphics 4000, no graphics card). I use gnome and GDM so I disable gdm.service and enabled plymouth-gdm.service instead.
The hooks in mkinitcpio.conf (No systemd in my HOOKS) was added and I ran mkinitcpio -p linux to rebuild initrd image. Finally I choosed a theme, tested it with success then rebuild the image.

My laptop boots correctly but no beautiful splash screen . Seems like Plymouth fallback to text mode.

While investigating, I found that :

# cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset
 -1

which seems quite odd since KMS should by activated by default on Intel cards.

I tried 3 differents approach to enable KMS which all failed miserably.

Try 1 :
In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf changed

MODULES=""

to

MODULES="i915"

Then rebuild initrd image :

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

Try 2 :
Created /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf with
   

options i915 modset=1

In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf changed to

MODULES="intel_agp i915"
FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"

And created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier "card0"
	Driver "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
	Option      "SwapbuffersWait"    "false"
EndSection

Then rebuild initrd image :

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

Try 3 :
Edited /etc/default/grub and added i915.modset=1 to Kernel arguments and generated grub config again

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated .

Thanks a lot

Last edited by DeletedUser211210 (2017-02-25 10:04:29)

DeletedUser211210

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Registered: 2016-10-08

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Plymouth Install with Intel HD Graphics 4000

The problem is solved. I feel kinda stupid since try number 2 and 3 were on the right track but I wrote modset=1 instead of modeset=1 !
As soon as I wrote it correctly, everything worked !