Comment 58 for bug 427356

Well, everyone keeps saying usplash was disabled, I figured I must be missing something obvious. But it didn't seem as though, because I was mislead...

On September 2nd, 2008, Scott Remnant wrote, on:
http://www.netsplit.com/2009/09/02/making-a-splash/

>You could also argue that we could load the KMS drivers earlier, in the initramfs for example. While possible, this adds a significant time to the boot time for the extra loading and probing required. If we load the KMS driver in the initramfs, it takes about 8-10s to load the X server; if we load the KMS driver in the full system, it only takes about 6-8s to load the X server. Easy win.

>But what if we have to check the filesystem, or enter a decryption passphrase to mount it? That’s why we still have usplash. In those cases we will start usplash to display the progress or request the key. The usplash theme will be themed such that when it finishes, and X starts up, it looks ok frozen for the short time until xsplash replaces it with an identical theme.

So I was under the impression that usplash was here to stay, with the addition of xsplash..

However, on a minimal / "command-line" installed system, xsplash may be too much for the system to handle, in terms of resources, and in terms of graphical support, if a minimal X environment was later installed. For instance, on my test-bed system, a neomagic 256ZX with 4mb video ram is not capable of supporting 24-bit color depth, as its max supported resolution is 1024x768 @ 16-bit depth.

Are there any plans to account for that in other ubuntu branches, like say, Lubuntu?

To make matters worse, the new "feature" added by the stream of fixes described in bug #427356 "Boot performance updates" - i.e the newly added option "USPLASH=y" to initramsfs-tools - was nowhere to be mentioned.. Not in the default /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf file, nor in `man initramfs.conf`, nor in any of the usplash package files :(

I guess we need this new option documented in `man initramfs.conf` or to at least include "USPLASH=n" in the default initramfs.conf ?

Thanks