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Re: [Bug 519891] Re: Plymouth garbles screen (ATI 200M)

 

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
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Scott James Remnant
scott@xxxxxxxxxx

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Plymouth garbles screen (ATI 200M)
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