Re: Drop usplash in Squeeze? Move to plymouth?
On 20:47 Wed 19 May , Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Should we drop usplash from our package lists in Squeeze? It is as
> far as I can see dead upstream, as Ubuntu moved to plymouth as their
> boot progress bar, to get flicker free boot.
>
> It is also the cause of many problems with the video setup on several
> hardware models, and it would be nice to avoid such problems in
> Squeeze.
>
> I guess we should investigate plymouth, but I doubt I will find time
> to do it any time soon.
plymouth seems a good choice.
Some times is needed to do a debian-edu theme, I got a look about how it works
and it is not that simple...
There is 4 or 5 existing themes where you can directly replace the default logo
by the debian-edu logo.
I have done a package for my goals and setted it up for the custom debian Im
working on for my company.
If you want to give a try:
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0. Install v86d package.
1. /etc/default/grub
Replace GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="..."
by GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"
Replace #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
by GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024
Notice that grub2 supports different resolutions so you can put there a list
and grub2 will choose the first working one. (debian-edu grub background
image should be updated)
2. /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
Add a line containing: uvesafb mode_option=1280x1024-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap
3. echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
4. sudo update-grub2
sudo update-initramfs -u
Now you have the default setted theme.
sudo /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme --list (list available themes)
sudo /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme THEME (change theme)
sudo update-initramfs -u (apply to initramfs)
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Plymouth is currently in sid but build fine under squeeze.
So I have rebuilt it on squeeze with a small modification in debian/local by
giving another logo (default is debian-logo.png.uue), update debian/rules for
decode my new logo and update debian/local/plymouth.hook to do the copy of this
new logo.
Greetings,
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