[SOLVED]Plymouth Problems(Nvidia Driver installed)

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 05:36:17

Recently I have read the wiki post Silent boot, and I installed plymouth, but sadly, it doesn't work when booting.

First, I installed Nvidia Driver, but I didn't run nvidia-xconfig, because it will cause some problem so I can't start DM.

Second, I have my plymouth installed. I use the kernel params in the wiki, includes

quiet splash vt.global_cursor_default=0 rd.systemd.show_status=false rd.udev.log-priority=3

But it didn't worked well, I tried many themes like BGRT, spinner and etc. But none of them worked. I only saw a BGRT logo appeared and disappeared for a second, and later it appeared again, but no animations or other images, that's all before the DM appearing.

Later I installed grub-silent from AUR, and simply ran grub-mkconfig. Now grub isn't displaying any texts, but now I can't even see the BGRT logo, and I didn't set "fbcon=nodefer". I'm sure it isn't in the grub.cfg.

So anyone have any idea about this? I just want a plymouth splash screen, and silent boot. By the way, I'm using a Laptop with Intel i7-9750H and Nvidia RTX2070 now.

Last edited by quank123wip (2021-03-05 22:50:34)

seth · 2021-03-05 07:54:12

nvidia-xconfig, because it will cause some problem so I can't start DM

Means it's probably an optimus system.

Did you add the required kernel modules, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth ?
Did you forget the rebuild the initramfs?

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 08:47:30

seth wrote:

nvidia-xconfig, because it will cause some problem so I can't start DM
Means it's probably an optimus system.
Did you add the required kernel modules, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth ?
Did you forget the rebuild the initramfs?

I'm pretty sure I rebuilt the initramfs by executing mkinitcpio with right params. And yes, it's an optimus system, and is that means I can't just simply install the nvidia driver? Or I need some workaround(s) like bumblebee or optimus-manager? Sadly, bumblebee looks like not working for me, and once I load it, the whole system will halt on startup and I can't even get into the tty and remove the services, I can only boot into another system like ArchISO and use chroot to remove the modules.

seth · 2021-03-05 08:57:25

It means you're most likely to boot on the intel chip and the nvidia one isn't relevant here itfp?
Please post your mkinitcpio.conf and a system journal (sudo journalctl -b)

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 09:17:44

seth wrote:

It means you're most likely to boot on the intel chip and the nvidia one isn't relevant here itfp?
Please post your mkinitcpio.conf and a system journal (sudo journalctl -b)

gist

Gotcha. I didn't post the full journal because of privacy, hope you can understand, and if you need a full journal please tell me that.

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 09:31:32

By the way, I don't know I should use which card. I just expect the splash works well, and I can still use cuda and opencl painless when I boot up into DE.

progandy · 2021-03-05 10:06:59

MODULES should also contain i915 if you have an optimus system.

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 10:15:50

progandy wrote:

MODULES should also contain i915 if you have an optimus system.

Thanks! It worked now. I think I should edit the wiki for this. The only question is between grub and splash, there is a black screen for a couple of seconds. Can the splash come out earlier or there is no way to fix that?

progandy · 2021-03-05 10:53:29

Maybe use GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep and set a grub background image?

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quank123wip · 2021-03-05 13:06:05

progandy wrote:

Maybe use GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep and set a grub background image?

Sadly, I had set this in my system as it installed. I think this is not related to grub config. I think when the display became blank, the kernel is already loaded. Its behavior seems like the kernel didn't load BGRT Image or somehow, but plymouth displayed a BGRT logo with its own animation. That's kind of weird.

seth · 2021-03-05 13:22:56

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … s#Fastboot ?
Since you've moved i915 to the initramfs, you'll have to rebuild it to apply changes to modprobe.conf
For a brief test, you could just append i915.fastboot=1 as kernel parameter .

quank123wip · 2021-03-05 22:49:32

seth wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … s#Fastboot ?
Since you've moved i915 to the initramfs, you'll have to rebuild it to apply changes to modprobe.conf
For a brief test, you could just append i915.fastboot=1 as kernel parameter .

That's helped a lot. Looks I have my answer to this question now. Very appreciated for your help. Thanks!

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[SOLVED]Plymouth Problems(Nvidia Driver installed)

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