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diff --git a/plymouth/README b/plymouth/README deleted file mode 100644 index 5dc8ef4..0000000 --- a/plymouth/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -Plymouth provides a flicker-free graphical boot process. It relies on -kernel mode setting (KMS) to set the native resolution of the display as -early as possible, then shows a splash screen leading up to the login -manager. - -Installing this package is not enough to get a splash screen. Plymouth -runs as a daemon started from the initrd, and Slackware's mkinitrd has -no hook for it, so the wiring is manual: - - 1. Add "splash" to the kernel command line (and "quiet" for a silent - boot). With GRUB, edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in - /etc/default/grub and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg - - 2. Copy plymouthd, the plymouth client, the renderers in - /usr/lib*/plymouth/renderers, the theme directory, /etc/plymouth, - and every library they link against into the initrd, then start - plymouthd from /init before the root filesystem is mounted. - Upstream ships /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd, but - it assumes a dracut or initramfs-tools layout and needs adapting. - - 3. Nothing tears the splash down without systemd. Call - "plymouth quit --retain-splash" before the display manager starts, - or "plymouth quit" at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.M for a console boot. - -On UEFI systems Plymouth uses the SimpleDRM driver by default to draw on -the EFI framebuffer, so the GPU driver need not be in the initrd. -Pass plymouth.use-simpledrm=0 to disable that. Note that with SimpleDRM -secondary monitors stay dark during boot, which matters if an encryption -passphrase prompt could land on one. - -Boot messages are shown by pressing Esc during boot, and are logged to -/var/log/boot.log. Add plymouth.nolog to disable logging and console -redirection, or plymouth.debug to write debug output to -/var/log/plymouth-debug.log. If Plymouth prevents a successful boot, -disable it with plymouth.enable=0 on the kernel command line. - -The theme is set in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf, which this package -installs empty for administrator overrides. Distribution defaults are in -/usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults and select the "spinner" theme. -Ten themes are shipped; list them with "plymouth-set-default-theme -l". -The "bgrt" theme reuses the vendor logo the UEFI firmware already -painted, if the firmware provides one. - -To preview the configured theme from a console without rebooting: - - plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash; sleep 5; plymouth --quit - -Keep that as one chained command, the sleep is what returns control. - -The initrd must be repopulated after every kernel update, and after any -theme change. |