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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.....