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Today's Topics:
1. Plymouth text mode flicker (Kai Hendry)
2. Re: Plymouth text mode flicker (Ray Strode)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:13:37 +0800
From: Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com>
To: plymouth@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Plymouth text mode flicker
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Hi there,
I believe I'm using Plymouth 0.8.8-4~baureo1 in Webconverger and I'm
experiencing an annoying flickr on boot demonstrated in this video:
http://youtu.be/dU4qs9QECt4?t=16s
All I want is progress bar running along the bottom, taking the whole
width until Xorg boots up.
I don't know why Plymouth flickers in the middle and then has a
progress bar running along a quarter of the screen. Looks really ugly.
I'm not worried about KMS. I do not want to go through the bother of
supporting all sorts of video frame buffers. So I am hoping this will
work on bog standard vesa on a very wide range of hardware.
Else maybe I'm better off without a progress bar and Plymouth at all?
I wonder what are the alternatives for showing that a machine is
booting on a slow machine.
Many thanks for your feedback!
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:05:58 -0400
From: Ray Strode <halfl...@gmail.com>
To: Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com>
Cc: plymouth <plymouth@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Plymouth text mode flicker
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Hi,
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com>wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I believe I'm using Plymouth 0.8.8-4~baureo1 in Webconverger and I'm
> experiencing an annoying flickr on boot demonstrated in this video:
> http://youtu.be/dU4qs9QECt4?t=16s
>
>
So what you're seeing there is the KMS driver changing the number of rows
and columns the console takes up. The text plugin doesn't handle this
right now (though it probably could, there would still be a slight flicker
when the mode changes)
Your best best is to avoid flicker is to avoid calling plymouth show-splash
until the modesetting driver has loaded (which you should do as early as
possible)
> I'm not worried about KMS. I do not want to go through the bother of
> supporting all sorts of video frame buffers. So I am hoping this will
> work on bog standard vesa on a very wide range of hardware.
>
If you don't care about KMS you could put nomodeset=1 on the kernel command
line and something like vga=0x318 to force a particular vesa mode. But
doing that won't look great on a wide variety hardware, since you'll end up
with non-native pixel sizes.
--Ray
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