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HyNite

Member

Registered: 2023-02-04

Posts: 4

Plymouth doesn't show anything

Here is what I did:

Installed NVIDIA driver,
Installed plymouth-git,
Did every thing in Silent Boot wiki,
Changed theme using sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R script,

I read the wiki multiple times to see what I did wrong but it seems like I did everything right but it doesn't work

also here is the config:

/boot/loader/loader.conf:
```
default arch.conf
timeout 3
console-mode max
editor no
```

/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf:
```
title Gharch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /intel-ucode.img
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=/dev/nvme0n1p3 rw ibt=off nvidia_drm.modeset=1 quiet loglevel=3 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 fbcon=nodefer
```

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
```
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
HOOKS=(base systemd sd-plymouth autodetect modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)
```

Thanks for helping.

Last edited by HyNite (2023-02-04 10:12:02)

d.ALT

Member

Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 959

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

Aren't mkinitcpio and dracut alternatives to each others?
You should NOT use both, from my understandings.

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HyNite

Member

Registered: 2023-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

Aren't mkinitcpio and dracut alternatives to each others?
You should NOT use both, from my understandings.

yes I don't know why I did the dracut config because I only used mkinitcpio -P

I removed it now but it doesn't make any difference because I didn't use dracut

Last edited by HyNite (2023-02-04 10:13:06)

d.ALT

Member

Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 959

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

I don't know if it's related or not (sorry, I don't use Plymouth), but did you have a look at this?

If you cannot use KMS, e.g. because you are using a proprietary driver, or if you do not want to use the EFI framebuffer, consider using Uvesafb

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<50,17,III,I>    misericordia e giustizia li sdegna:
<51,17,III,I>    non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa.

HyNite

Member

Registered: 2023-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

I don't know if it's related or not (sorry, I don't use Plymouth), but did you have a look at this?

If you cannot use KMS, e.g. because you are using a proprietary driver, or if you do not want to use the EFI framebuffer, consider using Uvesafb

Yes but you can set modeset using nvidia driver

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

To have high resolution as early as plymouth is running on an nvidia card your UEFI needs to provide the proper initial resolution since nvidia does indeed not have a high res framebuffer in early boot. A precondition of that is that CSM emulation mode in your UEFI is disabled make sure that is the case.

3beb6e7c46a615a

Member

Registered: 2021-03-27

Posts: 165

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

Don't you have to add the "splash" kernel parameter to enable plymouth? It seems to be missing in your configuration...

HyNite

Member

Registered: 2023-02-04

Posts: 4

Re: Plymouth doesn't show anything

Don't you have to add the "splash" kernel parameter to enable plymouth? It seems to be missing in your configuration...

Thanks that worked but still some themes doesn't work for some reason