Re: Plymouth only displays text bar (HowTo configure Plymouth for Proprietary NVidia)
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:55:22 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 27/01/12 23:08, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm playing with plymouth. I had no problems configuring it on my
>> laptop but I have a htpc where I wanted to set the xbmc-logo plymouth
>> theme. Unfortunately it only shows the white blue progress bar from the
>> text plymouth theme.
>>
>> I use Debian Squeeze on both of them. On the htpc it's the 64 bit
>> kernel (2.6.32-5-amd64). (I wanted to use the newest backport kernel
>> but it made the installtion of the nvidia drivers much more work so I
>> sticked with the original one.)
>>
>> I followed the Plymouth Debian Wiki page:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/plymouth
>>
>> I have a GeForce 9400 GT and use the nvidia drivers.
> <snipped>
>
> That's ^ probably the problem.
>
> If you're using the proprietary NVidia drivers you don't have KMS and
> need to do the following:-
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> You should now have a longer boot time to look at a purdy picture.
Great! Thanks alot for the detailed explanation. I will try it this
evening and compare boot times to decide if it's worth it :-)
Best regards
Ramon
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