http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702#c4 Peter Gumbrell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |peter@renault4.plus.com --- Comment #4 from Peter Gumbrell --- Rather than shouting into the wind, I'll use this rare drive-by of Bugzilla to repost a recent reply on the openSUSE misery list on this subject [https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-03/msg00086.html]: (Perhaps a video made of the boot-up would more amply demonstrate my situation but I don't have any ideal video upload solutions. Maybe I can try later on YouTube.) "I'd be curious to know if anybody really has a Plymouth boot under openSUSE that they consider satisfactory aesthetically? This 'flicker-free' boot notion was much parroted a few years ago and I've found personally that with every distribution release since, on multiple machines with different graphics cards, hardware and boot times, the idea of 'flicker-free' is laughable. It's an abysmal mess. (I wouldn't be so accusatory if it wasn't for this claim being wheeled out so often so nonchalantly). After getting through the BIOS splash and GRUB, what generally tends to follow is a series of screen blanks and resolution changes (even when I've explicitly set the native screen resolution in GRUB). With nVidia proprietary graphics an additional splash screen fights for attention just before the login screen arrives. That itself, with Plasma and sddm on 42.2, but also on previous oS versions, is at the wrong resolution and results in further blanks and another resolution change before the desktop appears. Try all this with a docking station and/or second monitor, each screen with its own independent blanking and reappearance times, and the whole thing is an unmitigated dirge. It's about as 'flicker-free' as a neon downtown jazz club sign in the rain in a film noir. Results will vary according to several factors. On brand new machines with SSDs the boot process can be so fast as to render Plymouth unnecessary anyway, because there's nothing to see. By the time the screen shows something it's already at the login screen. And if you have autologin you'll perhaps just progress directly and smoothly to the desktop. But on other distributions I've seen much better. Ubuntu, last time I tried it (12.04 I think) had a smooth glowing animated logo a bit Windows-esque, on the same machine that looks so ugly under openSUSE. Frankly, I've often been tempted to just remove Plymouth and learn to love the scrolling, informative, geeky boot text. At least if any regular person was watching over my shoulder they'd think 'wow he's logging into the matrix' rather than 'omg wtf lol look at his chaotic mess of an operating system'." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702#c6 --- Comment #6 from Josh Zimmerman --- I love how Tumbleweed Plasm5 or KDEWorkspace starts with a light bulb. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702 Josh Zimmerman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(jzimm0007@aol.com | |) | -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027702#c9 Josh Zimmerman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|NORESPONSE |--- Flags| |needinfo? --- Comment #9 from Josh Zimmerman --- I was talking about how it displays the terminal login black full screen with a blinking cursor before it starts x for several seconds after the service ok or failed, etc startup screen if you are to press escape during boot. I do not have Sse2 in my current opensuse 13.2 configuration so I can not really say if that is resolved for other people with Tumbleweed or not. If you can get plasma5 kwin5 or what have you to load on a Pentium three 785 MHz 32 bit 512mb ram 40 gb hdd, I'll get back with you on the results.Somebody gave me the laptop after my desktop should have never been broke to start with. So long story short, I can not test it, but others should know if this is an issue in current versions of Tumbleweed. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.