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theluga

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Registered: 2023-12-23

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Silent Boot still show messages booting on this laptop

Hello!

I tried silent boot, it works on the first part of the boot process, then the screen changes brightness and all boot messages appears again before going to gdm screen. I wanted to set vga=current but it will disable kms. What could I do to achieve silent boot, still maintaining hybrid graphics support?

Every help is welcome! 
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My laptop is a lenovo ideapad gaming 3:

$ inxi -b
System:
  Host: theluga Kernel: 6.6.10-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME
    v: 45.3 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82MJ v: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: LENOVO v: H3CN45WW(V3.03) date: 09/01/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 61.6 Wh (99.7%) condition: 61.8/60.0 Wh (103.0%)
CPU:
  Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 766 min/max: 400/4463
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
    v: 545.29.06
  Device-2: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.3.2-arch1.2
    renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54
    6.6.10-arch1-1)
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: rtw89_8852ae
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 68.11 GiB (14.3%)
Info:
  Processes: 353 Uptime: 12m Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est.
  available: 13.51 GiB used: 2.82 GiB (20.9%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.31

I am using systemd-boot.
My kernel parameters:

nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 ideapad_laptop.allow_v4_dytc=0 quiet loglevel=0 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0

My mkinitcpio.conf is:

MODULES=(amdgpu nvidia nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia-drm)
BINARIES=()
FILES=()
HOOKS=(systemd autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap block filesystems fsck)

I also added:

 kernel.printk = 3 3 3 3 

to

/etc/sysctl.d

[Edit]

changed my kernel parameters to:

quiet splash=silent loglevel=0 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1

I cannot get silent boot but I guess the bgrt theme is not that bad with the Arch logo and spinner... Still want silent boot though.

Last edited by theluga (2024-02-16 01:25:52)

cgb_spender

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Registered: 2024-01-15

Posts: 48

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Re: [SOLVED] Silent Boot still show messages booting on this laptop

Hi,
did you try disabling/enabling "Fast boot" or something like that in BIOS/UEFI?

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theluga

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Registered: 2023-12-23

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Silent Boot still show messages booting on this laptop

Hello, thank you for answering my question.

I don't have a fast boot option not even on debug mode (fn+r+n)x3. (nor do I have the legacy boot option)
But this problem occurs even with a cold boot, not just restarting.
I enable and disable the options on boot and security tab with no success.

I am almost giving up, like my backlight keyboard control (it does not appear on /sys/class/leds sometimes, when it does appears I cannot change the light. And changing the light with fn+space does not update on the brightness file value).

with splash, when the brightness changes on power on (I believe it is a systemd service to restore the brightness from the last session), it will go to the splash. Without splash, it will display boot messages even with the quiet parameter...

theluga

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Registered: 2023-12-23

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Silent Boot still show messages booting on this laptop

Just updating that my issue was solved after some kernel updates and uninstalling plymouth together when removing some orphans programs. Now I have silent boot working as intended. I don't know what changed but well, it's working!

thx.