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.???
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.