On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:29 +0000, Tom Louwrier wrote: > In order to find out what Plymouth would do when booting under 'nomodeset' I > rebooted and tried that. Guess what..... the situation has reversed. > 'Nomodeset' now gives me a screen with vertical coloured bars abd lines, and > there it all ends. > To be precise: > - 2 messages about fsck > - a purple screen in text-mode with Ubuntu showing, no coloured horizontal > bar at the bottom > - some messages about urearahead exiting with status 4, looking a bit messy > like the ones that broke up the blue/white bar > - X kicks in and I'm looking at vertical lines. > > I guess I can't complain about my system finally booting without setting > extra options, but it sort of bothers me that I can't tell you whether > Plymouth works OK now when KMS is disables. > >From the sounds of it, Plymouth is actually working great with KMS disabled (other than the spam of console messages over the top) - and it's the X server that screws things up when it kicks in.
You'll want to file a bug on the non-KMS X driver, almost certainly. Thanks, Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- Plymouth garbles screen (ATI 200M) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is a direct subscriber. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
