Feature #5948

Custom plymouth theme

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:48:32 . Updated 2015-01-03 11:08:01 .

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Description

In feature/tails-plymouth-theme branch we use a custom plymouth theme that looks close to windows vista bootup. So I consier "The Tails boot splash screen should be black with a tiny dots-based progress bar" as pending. It however is working only on machines with KMS-enabled graphics drivers. On other machines it falls back to the old text plugin. This was shipped in 0.12, proved to break the boot on far too many kinds of hardware, reverted in 0.12.1.

We should:

  1. Reintroduce this in experimental, without enabling KMS on more hardware this time. code
    #* basically done in feature/tails-plymouth-theme
    #* we also need to install plymouth-drm
    #*# either built from our custom 0.8.3-20~bpo60+1 backported source package, that’s worth trying first
    #*# or from Wheezy’s source package (on top of it, we probably want to cherry-pick fixes for Debian bug #691598, Debian bug #683764, Debian bug #691794, Debian bug #695706 and Debian bug #683763 like Progress Linux does
  2. Test it on various hardware for a while.

(This was part of implementing windows theme (Feature #5867)).

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #6460: Fix memory wipe with recent kernel Resolved 2013-11-30
Related to Tails - Feature #5867: windows theme Resolved
Related to Tails - Feature #7394: Evaluate xserver-xorg-video-modesetting for KMS support in QEMU and others Resolved 2014-06-11
Related to Tails - Feature #5417: Improve user experience when wiping memory at shutdown Resolved 2014-07-19

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2013-12-02 05:24:56

  • Starter set to No

winterfairy’s branch on Bug #6460 adds i915 to the ramdisk. This improves boot and shutdown display on some hardware.

#2 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 11:16:41

  • Subject changed from custom plymouth theme to Custom plymouth theme

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-11 06:42:14

  • related to Feature #7394: Evaluate xserver-xorg-video-modesetting for KMS support in QEMU and others added

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-21 14:56:55

  • related to Feature #5417: Improve user experience when wiping memory at shutdown added

#5 Updated by BitingBird 2015-01-02 20:19:34

This ticket was created when Tails was based on Squeeze, is it still relevant ?

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-03 11:08:01

> This ticket was created when Tails was still based on Squeeze, is it still relevant ?

Yes. It would be good to have our custom theme back, regardless of the Debian version we’re based on.