Plymouth not loading themes on Arch, falls back to three boxes and question marks I changed the spinner theme image in plymouth to add a custom background, and I tried to load it on boot. I have changed `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` to add the plymouth hook, and run `plymouth-set-default-theme -R spinner` multiple times. My plymouth debug log When I try to test the theme using commands plymouthd plymouth --show-splash It shows up correctly. But during boot, three boxes are shown near the bottom, with question marks above. I have tried the same procedure with spinfinity theme, with no luck. I can't figure out what is going wrong? Some help please!

Ref: reddit thread for same question. Thanks to u/kmt1980 for his help. Posting here on his behalf for others who run into this issue.

Plymouth requires Early-KMS init as mentioned in the Arch wiki. That is done by adding your VGA driver to `MODULES` in `mkinitcpio.conf`

edit `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` and add the driver name to `MODULES=(...)`. My `MODULES` line looks like this


MODULES=(i915)


`i915` because Intel integrated graphics. You can find your VGA driver using this command:


lspci -v | grep -A10 VGA | grep driver


Finally run `mkinitcpio -p linux` to regenerate ramfs.