[Bug 771905] Re: (natty/nvidia) No logo at boot on nvidia card

[Steve Langasek]

I understand now what's happening here, and have a tentative solution,
described in bug #864149.  grub is starting the kernel with the console
in graphics mode, but nothing in the initramfs ensures that the kernel
is able to pick up access to this graphical framebuffer.  Forcing vesafb
to be loaded on boot as a fallback (which we already do when plymouth is
not in the initramfs) will take care of this.

** Changed in: plymouth
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon)

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Title:
  (natty/nvidia) No logo at boot on nvidia card

Status in The Plymouth splash screen:
  Invalid
Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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.
  --- 
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MachineType: Acer Aspire 5520
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu23
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=fd612675-057c-4887-8c29-de0c54da7ec8 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Tags:  natty running-unity
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-21 (157 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
  dmi.bios.date: 10/29/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: V1.10
  dmi.board.name: Fuquene
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
  dmi.board.version: N/A
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.10:bd10/29/2007:svnAcer:pnAspire5520:pvrV1.10:rvnAcer:rnFuquene:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: Aspire 5520
  dmi.product.version: V1.10
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
  --- 
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MachineType: Acer Aspire 5520
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu23
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=fd612675-057c-4887-8c29-de0c54da7ec8 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Tags:  natty running-unity
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-21 (157 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
  dmi.bios.date: 10/29/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: V1.10
  dmi.board.name: Fuquene
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
  dmi.board.version: N/A
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.10:bd10/29/2007:svnAcer:pnAspire5520:pvrV1.10:rvnAcer:rnFuquene:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: Aspire 5520
  dmi.product.version: V1.10
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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