Further usplash development

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 31 14:36:38 CDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:21:00PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:01 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Like others already have replied, I also get dropped to text mode soon (at
> > > starting RAID)
> > 
> > That shouldn't happen anymore with a fully up-to-date system.
> 
> I just rebooted to check, and it still does, and yes, fully up-to-date.
> I also timed the boot to give you a better feel for what happens here.
> It seems to have gotten slower with usplash, but I have no hard data. Is
> this even possible? Anyway, maybe it matters.
> 
> 0 secs: Pressing enter on the grub boot screen -> loading kernel, boot
> is in text mode
> 11 secs: The splash kicks in and displays beautifully until it gets to
> "Calculating module dependencies"
> 35 secs: Splash returns me to text mode, still at calculating module
> dependencies
> 72 secs: Text mode vanishes, X starts to come up
> 86 secs: gdm is ready to log in
> 
> This is a HP nc6000 laptop with Ati Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 M10/M11
> (RV350 NP), 1.6 GHz Pentium M, 512 RAM

Sounds like "Calculating module dependencies" is simply taking too long on
your system.

See if you have an /etc/mkinitramfs/modules file, and if so, show me its
contents.

-- 
 - mdz



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