From: Sven Arvidsson on
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:58 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I am running debian etch.
> Previously in sarge I used to run bootsplash with hiccups for progress
> bars.
> I tried usplash in etch. I got gui only during shutdown not during
> boot.
> I will be thankful if somebody, who used both, can throw somelight on
> selecting among these two.

A couple of manual steps need to be taken to get usplash to work in
debian, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397954
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383327

There's also another userspace splashscreen called splashy, but only in
unstable.

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