plymouth splash screen

[lodore]

Hello,
i have looked at various guides and still cannot get the plymouth splash screen to work properly.
it still shows the label plugin.

i followed this guide

also when i typed sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd in to a terminal i dont know if it worked. all it shows is a flashing cursor. never confirms if the command is successful or not.

my graphics card is an nvidia 8800gt.
im using the proprietary Nvidia drivers from rpm fusion.

what vga= should i add?

I have a 17inch screen with the resolution of 1280x1024
the nvidia X server settings says colour depth is 16.7million colours.

thanks in advance
lodore

[jtang613]

I tried it - it worked great. I had been meaning to set this up and it looks fantastic.

Use vga=ask to determine the correct video mode. Then set vga= accordingly.

[d3n0]

For 1280x1024 resolution add vga=0x31B.

[lodore]

Originally Posted by d3n0

For 1280x1024 resolution add vga=0x31B.

unfortnatly it didnt work.

i may post the whole contents of the grub text file tomorrow just incase i put the line in the wrong place.

if the problem is the graphics driver when the graphics driver is updated later on will the splash screen then work?

btw i use DVI connection as well but i think you would still use the vga=

[JoshuaK]

I have a nVidia 6200 and plymouth sucked, but I am trying it again here tomorrow. Mine is 1440x900 so what vga= do i add. Oh PS I use DVI not VGA.

try mjmwired plymouth howto in my sig

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f10.html#rhgb

[JoshuaK]

Installing Fedora today, Ill edit this to give results. Best of luck to me and other nVidia sufferers

i really dont think we'll get Nvidia drivers for plymouth atleast untill around the 2.6.30 kernel though i could be wrong just a guess on my part

[JoshuaK]

Thanks you sir. Was about to install Arch, but Fedora is what ill be switching to from Ubuntu Anyway... will try this...

[erik_]

Originally Posted by JoshuaK

I have a nVidia 6200 and plymouth sucked, but I am trying it again here tomorrow. Mine is 1440x900 so what vga= do i add. Oh PS I use DVI not VGA.

I have 1440x900 too. It seems to work with vga=0x365 but I'm very confused.

At this link there is a post from a guy with 1440x900 and he says he uses vga=865 (or vga=0x865?).

He refers us to this page in Wikipedia. The 865 comes from the table "Linux video mode numbers" and corresponds to 1440x900 with 15-bit color. I have 24-bit color so that same table would tell me to use 867.

Instead I try vga=ask. This gives me many possibilities, only two are 1440x900:

1) 1440x900x8 364
2) 1440x900x32 365

I guess the third number is color depth, there's no option for 1440x900x24 so I try the two above, only the second (vga=0x365) works so I go with that. Phew.

Fedora is what ill be switching to from Ubuntu

Funny I'm thinking of switching to Ubuntu, just so that I can go through this reconfiguration stuff less often. What prompts you to move in the other direction?