MX Boot Animation at testing

[CharlesV]

@Freja

Here is the latest test run at the Startup / Shutdown animation.
This version incorporates the following mods :
__ Removed the direct SetImage code and reverted back to the callback / 'division' code from previous releases.
__ Removed several blank graphics in shutdown animation
__ Increased timing in shutdown graphics to 'last a little longer' on most screens.

This code is once again working from the callback refresh and so it will be affected by the faster / slower machines, but it should animate on all machines again. I have tested on all of my six machines. My two laptops on MX23 beta still show no shutdown animation - from *any* of the plymouth themes and not just mine. However, the MXLiveLogo animation works on my both of my desktops now on MX23, MX23 VM's and then on ALL of my test rigs and VM's running MX21.

Please give this a look on your MAC and let me know how it looks.

The latest version ( MXLiveLogo_230626ad ) can be downloaded from here:
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... vEiF0ErgzV

To install:
__ Unarchive the Zip file, creating the MXLiveLogo folder
__ Copy the MXLiveLogo to the /usr/share/plymouth/themes folder, over writing the current folder there.
__ Run in a terminal sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MXLiveLogo
__ Reboot.
____ Note: I have seen several times that it requires TWO reboots to in order to see the new MXLiveLogo Animation.

[FullScale4Me]

Looks good here. Showed up on first boot.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 [6.1.27-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23_beta2_x64 Libretto June 15  2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7050 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0NW6H5 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell v: 1.21.0
    date: 07/12/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse B330/M330/M331 serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake gen: core 7 level: v3
    note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 9
    microcode: 0xF2
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3271 high: 3600 min/max: 800/4200 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 3600 2: 3600 3: 3600 4: 3600 5: 972 6: 3600 7: 3600 8: 3600
    bogomips: 57600
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5
    process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2,
    HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3
    chip-ID: 046d:0825 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: Acer K242HYL serial: <filter> built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-4:3
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 046d:0825 class-ID: 0102 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-9-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
    chip-ID: 8086:15e3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.16 TiB used: 177.3 GiB (14.9%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingfast model: N/A size: 953.87 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 9B0 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB model: External USB3.0 size: 232.89 GiB block-size:
    physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0204 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 200.74 GiB size: 196.53 GiB (97.90%) used: 177.26 GiB (90.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 44.1 MiB (45.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2660 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2654 libs: 1510 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 6
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mike.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slack.list
    1: deb https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/ jessie main
Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 3 Memory: 31.21 GiB used: 2.83 GiB (9.1%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[siamhie]

Thanks @CharlesV. Worked on first boot. No shutdown animation on reboot but that's fine by me.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 [6.1.27-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff init=/lib/systemd/systemd
  Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0
    Distro: MX-23_fluxbox_beta2_x64 Libretto June 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C56 v: 2.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: B550-A PRO (MS-7C56) v: 2.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: A.B0 date: 08/11/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 level: v3 note: check
    built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0
    microcode: 0x8701021
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache: L1: 512 KiB
    desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB desc: 2x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2199 high: 2200 min/max: 2200/4559 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 2196 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2200 5: 2200 6: 2200
    7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200 13: 2200 14: 2200 15: 2198 16: 2200
    bogomips: 124800
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] vendor: Tul / PowerColor
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie:
    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: Compton v: 1 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00") s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: HP X27q serial: <filter> built: 2021
    res: 2560x1440 hz: 165 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (navi22 LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.49
    6.1.0-9-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 14:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-9-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie:
    gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2.3:4 chip-ID: 8087:0032
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 8.19 TiB used: 881.88 GiB (10.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G1X0E-00AFY0
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 613000WD temp: 46.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 102000WD temp: 44.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 size: 7.28 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 465.26 GiB size: 456.89 GiB (98.20%) used: 8.89 GiB (1.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 572 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 65 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
    maj-min: 259:1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C mem: 50.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1079
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2258 libs: 1207 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
    1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Info:
  Processes: 360 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 2 Memory: 31.27 GiB used: 1.82 GiB (5.8%) Init: systemd v: 252
  target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12 Client: shell wrapper
  v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[CharlesV]

@siamhie & @FullScale4Me excellent! And thanks for those reports.

I will be working at figuring out the why no shutdown / restarts, but very glad to hear that boot is working!!

[Freja]

@CharlesV
On the "problem" Mac, almost OK at booting.
But Shutdown animation has skipped.

This machine is very strange. Please ignore.
You can ignore at least one model exception.

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV
On the "problem" Mac, almost OK at booting.
But Shutdown animation has skipped.

This machine is very strange. Please ignore.
You can ignore at least one model exception.

ha! OK ,thanks for the report.

[Melber]

@CharlesV
Start animation runs (a little bit slower than before?)
Shutdown animation doesn't run, just stopping services messages then black screen.

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV
Start animation runs (a little bit slower than before?)
Shutdown animation doesn't run, just stopping services messages then black screen.

Thanks @Melber Yup, I had to change back to the way I was processing the animation originally to stabilize it, and one of the drawbacks was a little slower. It should be a bit more representative of the machine speed, but still smooth.

Working on the shutdown still, something is very odd with the beta shutdown.

[dolphin_oracle]

@CharlesV
Start animation runs (a little bit slower than before?)
Shutdown animation doesn't run, just stopping services messages then black screen.

Thanks @Melber Yup, I had to change back to the way I was processing the animation originally to stabilize it, and one of the drawbacks was a little slower. It should be a bit more representative of the machine speed, but still smooth.

Working on the shutdown still, something is very odd with the beta shutdown.

I can tell you the shutdowns work in virtualbox but not on my real production hardware. I've been trying to think up differences, 1 is that my virtualbox installs use mbr whereas the real installs use EFI. There are framebuffer differences, which could be related I supposed.

But I believe shutdown is not reliable with the previously existing themes either.

[CharlesV]

@CharlesV
Start animation runs (a little bit slower than before?)
Shutdown animation doesn't run, just stopping services messages then black screen.

Thanks @Melber Yup, I had to change back to the way I was processing the animation originally to stabilize it, and one of the drawbacks was a little slower. It should be a bit more representative of the machine speed, but still smooth.

Working on the shutdown still, something is very odd with the beta shutdown.

I can tell you the shutdowns work in virtualbox but not on my real production hardware. I've been trying to think up differences, 1 is that my virtualbox installs use mbr whereas the real installs use EFI. There are framebuffer differences, which could be related I supposed.

But I believe shutdown is not reliable with the previously existing themes either.

I agree, my desktops seem to be ok and show the shutdown perfectly, but my laptops dont. All my VM's do. I have not seen any issues with mx21 or 19 with this, it is have been very stable. But something is up, even the previous plymouth themes that did work in 21 dont on 23 shutdown. Curious as to why my earlier shutdown seemed to work much better as it is now using identicle code for display. Only the images are different now.

I am going to drop back in my testing and use exact older code and images and then work back up and see where the break happens. And also look at the shutdown messages and method there too. I see MUCH more text on mx23 at shutdown then I have before on any other's, thought it was just "beta" and shrugged it off, but now I am thinking I need to be looking at it.

Also curious, I downloaded debian 12 and ran through its plymouth themes and everything has stripped down to a "two step" method, which basically does not even have a shutdown!. And the latest plymouth themes with shutdown animation from freedesktop.org are also all showing.