Comment 9 for bug 1675453

I'm learning all those bits slowly piece by piece here...

@Steve: it actually seems that "vt.handoff=1" is not equal to no-vt.handoff. I would have to look into the vt.handoff kernel patches, but without vt.handoff tty1 is indeed used by default for handoff and everything, but the difference is that vt.handoff also turns the terminal to a 'transparent' type until first switch in and out from that terminal. What this means practically is that when "quiet splash vt.handoff=1" is given, there is no output printed onto the screen and all plymouth transitions are fluid (and the aubergine BG is present from the start). Quoting Colin from askubuntu:

"vt.handoff=7 then causes the kernel to maintain the current contents of video memory on virtual terminal 7, which is a new "transparent" VT type. The first time that the kernel is told to switch away from VT 7, either from Plymouth or manually (Alt-F1, etc.), these contents are lost and VT 7 reverts to text mode."