On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 09:20:55PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >- it now works, YAY (and thanks!). But I conclude from the whole > > experience that before now plymouth was somehow able to fallback to > > askpass after self-detecting some sort of failure, while new versions > > aren't any more. If that's the case, this might affect other users > > Before the last update, plymouth was not enabled at all if splash was not > passed to the kernel cmdline, now the plymouth daemon is started even if > it's not passed, that probably explain the change of behavior.
Possibly. Although please note that "splash" *is* on my kernel cmdline, and has been since forever. > >- does the above mean that now non-free firmware is required to use > > plymouth on i915 hardware? Or was the warning about something else > > that is not strictly needed to make plymouth work? (sorry, I haven't > > yet tried to re-remove the firmware and see what happens) > > I'm not sure, I don't have a machine with an intel card to test, you should > test without them. I've tested this. Even after purging firmware-misc-nonfree (and rebuilding the initramfs, which results in the aforementioned warning) the boot still works fine. > >-http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/IMG_20151129_174719.jpg > >-http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/IMG_20151129_174736.jpg > >-http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/IMG_20151129_174751.jpg > > I cannot reproduce this without an intel card, could you please report this > upstream? To be frank, I don't think I've a decent enough understanding of what is supposed to happen to be able to file a proper upstream bug report. In particular, I've no idea of whether plymouth is supposed to work without adding i915 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules or not. If adding the module there is a requirement, then arguably this bug is actually PEBKAC. But if users (at least in Debian) started to rely on that behavior, than a work-around might be needed. Not sure if it should be upstream or distro-level though. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . . . . @zacchiro . . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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