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- slashr - 2010-07-31

figures Wink , really not liking plymouth heh , too bad it takes some work to get usplash instead

- slashr - 2010-07-31

decided to install the desktop version for some digging around and the splash kept showing (even tho in low res) with the nvidia drivers and black list , also the shutdown splash worked , so yeah i guess with a mini installation you have to sacrifice stuff such as that .

anyway back to the minimal as i hate the sluggy feel of the menu in a desktop install , just have 1 last thing i want to try before giving up on some perfect boot up Wink.

ok traced down what makes the glibc error show up , it's when you a hm image plymouth logo ? if you let the text one stay there is no errors ;o .

- nitr8 - 2010-08-01

Ok,

So, for those who cannot get plymouth to work, follow the following, or those who have it working, but just want a better image still look:

To get the following look:
Image

sudo wget -q http://nfye.com/EB1501/ubuntu_logo.png -O /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu_logo.png
sudo wget -q http://nfye.com/EB1501/progress_dot_on.png -O /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/progress_dot_on.png

Set your resolution higher:
sudo vi /etc/default/grub
Add the following line:
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x1024

Update grub:
sudo update-grub

Test your new splash screen:
sudo plymouthd; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; for ((I=0; I<10; I++)); do sudo plymouth --update=test$I ; sleep 1; done; sudo plymouth quit

If you using ATI or Nvidia, it possibly wont show on boot, you will need to do the following:

sudo vi /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
Add the flowing:
sudo -s
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y >> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
update-initramfs -u -k all
exit

Also make sure your /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT contains "quiet splash"

Thanks to BurningSky for the awesome logo.

It you wish to remove plymouth it shaved 5 seconds off my boot time do the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dtl131/mediahacks
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude purge plymouth

You could also take a look at this:
http://humphrey.za.net/2010/07/31/speed-up-ubuntu-10-04-with-xbmc/

- Flomaster - 2010-08-01

wget wasn't working for me in putty so I used an FTP client to send the two images to the plymoth theme location. I have followed the rest of the guide but I end up with a blank splash screen.

I have a zotac ion so I added the extra Nvidia part

do I need to change permissions on the 2 files I used the FTP on?

-=Jason=-

- nitr8 - 2010-08-01

No on perms, what happens when you run:
sudo plymouthd; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; for ((I=0; I<10; I++)); do sudo plymouth --update=test$I ; sleep 1; done; sudo plymouth quit

- slashr - 2010-08-01

yeah i did that workaround , by the way it's best for the background color of the theme to be black as even by setting for example 1920x1080 resolution it doesn't fill my screen like it did before installing the nvidia drivers .

the thing i was trying to achieve was a perfect boot up , kindda like the desktop version where by the time the splash screen ends you're already inside of gnome .

also in a mini install even with those changes there is no splash screen when rebooting , and between the ubuntu splash screen and txbmc launching there is a dead 2 seconds or so of black screen .

either way i'm sticking with this install method due to much better performance , but it does have it's short comings if you want everything to be as perfect as possible when it comes to looks .

thanks

also managed to make it a lil better boot speed wiseby doing the boot profiling so run it if you want a faster boot , just edit /etc/default/grub add profile to the command line (where it says quiet splash etc) , update grub and then reboot , after that you can remove it from grub and update grub again .

will try that link of yours to see if i can shae a bit more time thanks Smile .

i guess the biggest thing is that gdm has integration with the plymouth and well xbmc-live doesn't so it should be impossibl to do the same thing

- Flomaster - 2010-08-02

nitr8 Wrote:No on perms, what happens when you run:
sudo plymouthd; sudo plymouth --show-splash ; for ((I=0; I<10; I++)); do sudo plymouth --update=test$I ; sleep 1; done; sudo plymouth quit

I just get a black screen for a few seconds

-=Jason=-

- slashr - 2010-08-02

i also had that issue so do this : (bit of a different method)

do :
Code:
sudo apt-get install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo
then
Code:
wget http://excyle.nl/plymouth-theme-xbmc-logo.deb
dpkg -i plymouth-theme-xbmc-logo.deb
(credits to excyle http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=576217&postcount=14)

then for some reason i rebooted and got black screen , so i had to do :
Code:
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
and picked the ubuntu-logo not the xbmc one (so i pressed 1 wich was the number of the ubuntu-logo
then i did
Code:
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth again
and picked xbmc-ubuntu this time
and finally did :
Code:
sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

and reboot , let me know if it works for you , cheers

sorry if it's a bit confusing but it gets hard to explain stuff with english as a third language , cheerios

- Mike8913 - 2010-08-10

PHP Code:
sudo apt-get install xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils binutils gcc upower udisks pm-utils policykit 


I'm at this step. I keep getting error . . . "couldn't find package xbmc"

At first I thought it was because i was running x64....so I scrapped my install and ran x86 install = same thing.

I don't know how to proceed.

Please help me out here.

- Captain Moody - 2010-08-10

I'm having exactly the same problem today.
Worked fine yesterday on my test PC though...

- BurningSky - 2010-08-10

Mike8913 Wrote:
PHP Code:
sudo apt-get install xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils binutils gcc upower udisks pm-utils policykit 


I'm at this step. I keep getting error . . . "couldn't find package xbmc"

At first I thought it was because i was running x64....so I scrapped my install and ran x86 install = same thing.

I don't know how to proceed.

Please help me out here.
Do you want to install the nightly or the stable build?
The PPA for nightly SVN builds is empty, maybe that's why it couldn't find the package.

/Edit
The stable one is broken too.
See here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=582128#post582128

- Mike8913 - 2010-08-10

I installed the svn-ppa repo.....so the problem isnt my system or install, the repo is empty?

- Cirion - 2010-08-12

BurningSky Wrote:Do you want to install the nightly or the stable build?
The PPA for nightly SVN builds is empty, maybe that's why it couldn't find the package.

/Edit
The stable one is broken too.
See here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=582128#post582128
Looks filled again Smile

- BurningSky - 2010-08-12

Cirion Wrote:Looks filled again Smile

Yes and it works like a charme. Nod

- dirtylion - 2010-08-12

E: Couldn't find package xbmc Sad