Debian: Plymouth configuration with installed video card

Question

I'm running Debian 6.0.7 Squeeze and installed Plymouth to get a splash screen to cover up the system calls that appear on boot. I also have an nVidia graphics card installed for which I have already installed drivers for and followed the debian plymouth guide from here. Instead of seeing the THEME that I set, i get a blue and white progress bar to appear at the bottom of the screen. What am I missing to be able to see the set THEMES at boot via the new graphics card.???

Answer 1

That is expected and happens because NVIDIA proprietary driver does not support kernel modesetting, so a graphical animation cannot be displayed at boot. Instead, Plymouth falls back to the default textual theme.