On 04/03/17 10:45, Bjarne Örn Hansen wrote:
Hej,
I got the idea that installing plymouth, would give me a "nicer" bootsplash. So, I installed it ... but since that, the only thing I get during boot is a blinking underscore. Been searching the net, but haven't found any information on how to fix this.
Anybody else getting the same thing? Any solutions?
// Bjarne
Can't propose any solutions, but on a more general note, 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. 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'. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org