[Bug 771905] Re: No logo at boot on nvidia card

[magelan]

I also tried it with comment 39, just used "radeon" instead. After the changes described there, also initramfs-update, I made a reboot and was locked out of the system! I could not enter my password for the decryption on the black screen where normally no letters appeared and where normally I could blindly type in the password (normally means with this bug active). Instead, the English keyboard layout was active and the letters were printed on the screen.
So I tried the recovery console; did not work either, probably uses the same initramfs. Then I chose the previous (normal) kernel version and could change the file, but I just made a "#" before "modprobe radeon", so that it is a comment. update-initramfs. Then: It worked. I could enter the password and now even unity works and I solved this problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11114126 and  http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/unity-startet-nicht-mit-radeon-glx-ext-texture-fro/ ("GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap missing").
With a commented "radeon modprobe" it worked for me.
Hope this helps everyone with the radeon driver.
Thank you.

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Title:
  No logo at boot on nvidia card

Status in The Plymouth splash screen:
  Confirmed
Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  Hello,
  I have a Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS, with proprietary drivers, and I am using Ubuntu Natty.

  Since I updated to Natty (it was the Beta 2 version), plymouth only
  shows a purple screen, without logo and without dots. It's simply
  purple.

  Note that, before updating, I had already solved the issue which made
  plymouth show the Ubuntu logo textual theme instead of the graphic one
  with proprietary drivers on Nvidia cards, so I don't think it's
  related (unless some of the files I modified were reset during the
  update, I don't know). This time, however, I don't even get the
  "default" text theme.

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