Hi. I've tried to do everything what is said here:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=62417

...everything goes fine until i proceed with the very last line update-initramfs -u, and it brings this:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64

And of course, no splash screen. Any ideas?

P. S. Yes, i've posted it here and there too, but just for your information troll seekers, hunters and bored ones, i want any reaction whatsoever as soon as possible, so mind your own life and don't shove it up here, 'cause i'm really getting pissed.

Thanks. But one question... what Nvidia and Intel stand for in this case? Video? I have ATI and also AMD64 CPU, obviously. So what should i do?


ah.. now i see: "Before installing, check the manufacturer website if your graphic card drivers supports modesetting or check the project page of the free/open drivers of your graphic card.", so that means i can't use no splash screen or what? Sorry for dumb questions, but i don't really get how it can depend on video... to make it short my video doesn't support splash screens or the software that provides such. But that's ridiculous...

P. S. I guess this time linux suggests me to get another videocard along with a new monitor Just joking, no trolling.

Video is what you see. Thus Video cards.

Plymouth is a buggy piece of shit. The best thing that could happen to it is for it to disappear from the universe.

In my experience there is about 20 seconds of time that you would see a splash screen. Is it worth doing for that.

I think that Debian is only using it as a splash screen, having checked the depends, instead of a boot manager which it is supposed to do. It does it badly so just using the thing for splash is a good thing.

The biggest problem that folks have with it is needing to add nonmodeset to grub so that their system does not freeze when the splash screen comes up. This of coarse prevents the splash screen from coming up.

If you ran a search on plymouth you must have seen all the problems that folks are having.

You are using Squeeze. The version of Plymouth for Squeeze is one of the worst as it was the first to work in Debian branch Linux. By work I mean that it will install without breaking the install over 50% of the time.

You may want to try a newer version from the Wheezy or Sid repos.

Install at own risk. May break your system. You have been warned.

EDIT
There may be a newer version in the Squeeze backports repo.

thanks. Actually.. i could feel that it's not a good thing to do. Still nice to see this confirmed.

It is good to check the popularity contest on occasion. Should be taken with a grain of salt but does indicate some things.
http://popcon.debian.org/

I had never checked Plymouth.
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=plymouth

It is hard to compare packages but I wouldn't think a bunch of folks use "soundconverter" (I do) and it appears they don't.
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=soundconverter

More than twice as many as Plymouth though. Could be because it works and has an actual use to it.

You need to be root to run update-initramfs. And Plymouth will not work in Virtualbox but may now because Gnome 3 wouldn't and now it will work in Virtualbox.

i didn't run it in VirtualBox, and yes, i ran it as root of course, otherwise it would tell me that it's not able to access the app or something like that. I think the problem might be after all in ATI. As one guy has stated above it's not yet simple to configure it for ATI, and on wiki there's no parameter for such, only for Intel and nVidia. Thus bummer. Matter of choice though, i don't think that splash screen is much worth such big efforts to me, and i dunno in advance if i even succeed and not break my system doing so. That's why many people think i'm a troll, cause i don't wanna do something doubtful. I've already screwed up many times and ended up reinstalling the system 'cause i couldn't boot in the graphical shell.

Speaking of Gnome 3, i don't like that shit. Totally unprofessional, limited, uncostumizable cheap disasterpiece. Same as KDE4, though it's kinda costumizable, but still the same disturbing. And if it goes on like this i'll have to abandon linux. Cause you know, it's not windows, and if i get a new computer and new Debian version it'd probably be with Gnome 3/KDE4/5 and no, i won't be able to downgrade. That's one thing i don't like about linux. You almost never can use old software, unless you do some geeky stuff, which i'm not gonna do. Although i can use some alternative DE, like xfce or lxde etc... but i'm in love with gnome 2.x so far. I can't use any of the above mentioned.