On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 01:56, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> wrote:
Anthony F McInerney writes:

> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 21:23, Sam Varshavchik <<URL:mailto:mrsam@courier-
> mta.com>mrsam@courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
>    This laptop boots with the spinfinity plymouth theme, and there's a white 
>    progress indication bar at the bottom of the display, progressing from
>    left 
>    to right, during the boot.
>
>    That other laptop, over there, also boots with the spinfinity plymouth 
>    theme, but there is no progress bar. Spinfinity just spins on its own,
>    and 
>    that's the only thing that happens, until the desktop comes up.
>
>    I compared the plymouth packages on the two laptops. The only difference
>    is 
>    that the first laptop has plymouth-theme-solar theme installed, in
>    addition 
>    to spinfinity; and all other plymouth packages are the same.
>
>    I'll try installing the solar theme on the other laptop, but I can't see 
>    that making a difference. The absence of the progress bar, on the 2nd 
>    laptop, is a Scooby-Doo mystery to me.
>
>
>
>
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> So cat  /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf   (any differences on two laptops, this 
> one and THAT one ;) )

Nope. They are identical:

# cat plymouthd.conf
# Administrator customizations go in this file
#[Daemon]
#Theme=fade-in
[Daemon]
Theme=spinfinity

> It sounds like you're seeing the text mode fallback progress bar?

> <URL:https://jadelinux.net/images/boottheme/charge.png>https://jadelinux.net/
> images/boottheme/charge.png
>
> Like that, confirm?

Nope, that's the charge theme fallback.

Both of the laptops run the spinfinity theme. Both of them animate the 
infinity logo on a blue background, identically.

Except that this one also shows an all-white progressbar on the bottom, at 
the same time as the spinfinity one is being animated.

The charge text-mode fallback is a tri-color progressbar, rendered in text 
mode, one character cell at a time; the spinfinity one's an all-white 
progressbar, rendered pixel by pixel.


Yup, ok, i'm going to put my confusion down the fact that i've never noticed the bar on the spinfinity theme. :)
Anyway, the only thing that instantly pops to mind is resolution. (I'm also assuming the laptop here, is different to that laptop over there)
So maybe a quick test with something like GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1080

That's all that I can think of.....