plymouth for Debian
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Plymouth supports both KMS (kernel mode setting) and standard console output.
For standard console support the plymouth-x11 package has to be installed.
The following steps are required in order to enable the plymouth bootsplash:
* In case the KMS backend should be used and KMS is not yet enabled on your
system, add the following lines to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules:
# for KMS with Intel graphic cards
i915 modeset=1
# for KMS with NVIDIA graphic cards
nouveau modeset=1
# for KMS with AMD (ATI) graphic cards
radeon modeset=1
Remember to afterwards rebuild the initrd with 'update-initramfs -u' as
root.
* Install plymouth and optionally the plymouth-themes packages.
* Add 'splash' as boot parameter in your bootloader configuration.
* Optionally switch to a different theme by running
update-alternative --config default.plymouth (and rebuilding the initrd again).
-- Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:11:20 +0200