This is a tracking bug for Change: Flicker Free Boot For more details, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot Make Fedora Workstation boot graphically smooth, without the display briefly turning off and without any abrupt graphical transitions.
The changes for enabling i915.fastboot by default have been in rawhide for a while now. I've just build plymouth-0.9.4-3.fc30 and fedora-logos-30.0.0-4.fc30 which together implement the plymouth changes from this change. Both should be in tomorrows rawhide, making this change fully testable starting with tomorrows rawhide, changing status to modified.
I tested this according to the blog post on Fedora 29 and unfortunately the background still uses the fallback grey one on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. Afaiu it should be all black. Also my screen is a HiDPI screen and the lock icon and the fedora logo are blurred, because their upscaled I think.
(In reply to taaem from comment #2) > I tested this according to the blog post on Fedora 29 and unfortunately the > background still uses the fallback grey one on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. Afaiu > it should be all black. I'm working on a FAQ for flickerfree boot, I believe that question 1 of the (not yet published) FAQ covers this: 1) I get a black screen after the firmware-splash and a grey-background instead of the firmware splash while Fedora is booting ? 1a) Do "ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars" if you get a "No such file or directory" error then your system is booting in classic BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode, to fix this you need to re-install and boot the livecd/installer in UEFI mode when installing. Alternatively you can try to convert your existing install, see: https://oded.blog/2017/11/13/fedora-bios-to-uefi/ Note this is quite tricky, make backups first! 1b) Do "ls /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt" if you get a "No such file or directory" error then your system is likely using the classic VGA BIOS during boot despite running in UEFI mode. Often you can select BIOS mode compatility in your BIOS settings aka the CSM setting. If you can select this on a per component level, set the VIDEO/VGA option to "UEFI only" or "UEFI first", alternatively you can try completely disabling the CSM mode If you do have a /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt directory, but you are still getting the Fedora logo + spinner on a grey background instead of on top of the firmware-splash, please file a bug about this and drop me a mail with a link to the bug. > Also my screen is a HiDPI screen and the lock icon and the fedora logo are > blurred, because their upscaled I think. Yes, these come from png-s and are only available in the 1x size, so we upscale them. Fixing this would start with adding support to plymouth for first trying to load images with a scale-factor added to their name (and then the design theme needs to provide higher res images). I don't see myself having time for adding this anytime soon. Still can you file a bug here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/issues/ for tracking adding support for higher res images for hidpi screens please? Note if you look closely you will also see a small darkline between the lock icon and the password-entry field on hidpi screens. I have a fix for this upstream and the next F30 version of the plymouth packages will include the fix for this darkline.
Thanks! I needed to switch to UEFI only and disable CSM mode and then it worked perfectly, this looks really nice, great work! I will report the HiDPI stuff upstream.
Not sure that this is the right place to report, but I also followed instructions on https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/20324.html and I just see some grey textual theme with up-to-date Fedora 29 on my Lenovo T480s. I have "UEFI Only" and "CSM Support: NO" in my BIOS settings. "ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars" and "ls /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt" work. Any idea what is wrong?
(In reply to Ondrej Holy from comment #5) > Not sure that this is the right place to report, but I also followed > instructions on https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/20324.html and I just > see some grey textual theme with up-to-date Fedora 29 on my Lenovo T480s. I > have "UEFI Only" and "CSM Support: NO" in my BIOS settings. "ls > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars" and "ls /sys/firmware/acpi/bgrt" work. Any idea > what is wrong? Did you do this step: sudo dnf install plymouth-theme-spinner And did you do it *before* running: sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt ?
Hmm, I did it. However, I've tried `sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt` again and works nicely now, so I don't know why it did not work before. Sorry for the bothering.
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Everything for this change is in place, changing status to ON_QA.