Plymouth text mode flicker

[Kai Hendry]

On 13 July 2013 02:05, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your best best is to avoid flicker is to avoid calling plymouth show-splash
> until the modesetting driver has loaded (which you should do as early as
> possible)

If my memory serves me correctly, I had the experience of putting
various KMS ati/intel modules in the initramfs and it was a huge PITA.
It caused problems, so much so, I felt that I should remove it
altogether and just let the later stage, X init take care of that.

I'm probably wrong, since a colleague has pointed out there is no escaping KMS.

> If you don't care about KMS you could put nomodeset=1 on the kernel command
> line and something like vga=0x318 to force a particular vesa mode.  But
> doing that won't look great on a wide variety hardware, since you'll end up
> with non-native pixel sizes.

Prefer go for something that works and is easy to maintain right now.

Thanks for your help!