diff --git a/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/20-plymouth.conf b/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/20-plymouth.conf
index ad89dc98a..6932dcfac 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/20-plymouth.conf
+++ b/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/20-plymouth.conf
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ splash
 # there's a valid drm-enabled console available. This tells plymouth to run
 # anyways.
 plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles
+
+# Newer releases of plymouth include a new standalone console viewer to replace
+# fbcon in kernels with CONFIG_VT disabled. However it is quite slow, needs
+# an additional monospace font, and we have no plans to disable CONFIG_VT
+# anytime soon. Tell plymouth to prefer the old way of using fbcon for logging.
+plymouth.prefer-fbcon
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/APKBUILD
index ba39e7057..4ca8a7817 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-bootsplash/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Co-Maintainer: Ferass El Hafidi <funderscore@postmarketos.org>
 maintainer="Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>"
 pkgname=postmarketos-bootsplash
-pkgver=1
+pkgver=2
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="pmOS integration components for boot/shutdown splash screen"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ openrc() {
 }
 
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