[Bug 961349] Re: Plymouth boot

[Steve Langasek]

Ok, so to restate, the issue you're reporting here is that the plymouth
splash comes up using the text theme instead of using the high-
resolution graphical splash.

The answer is that your kernel has not brought up a framebuffer, so
plymouth has no way to display the graphics.

Your lspci output shows the following:

00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] [10de:07e1] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:736b]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
	Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 3: Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Expansion ROM at fea40000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

Neither the nouveau nor the nvidiafb driver is loaded, according to
/proc/modules on your system.  This explains why there's no framebuffer,
but is very unusual.  Have you made any changes to the video
configuration on this machine?  Do you have any of the nvidia binary
driver packages installed?

Your bug report also does not include a copy of /var/log/dmesg because
your user is not part of the 'adm' group.  Could you attach this file to
your bug report by hand?

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Plymouth boot 
+ no framebuffer on nvidia

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Title:
  no framebuffer on nvidia

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Splash not consistent with ubuntu

  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tpNUlFU_5-s/TqVibBihQRI/AAAAAAAABKc/8VdmohuRokA/s1600/Plymouth_ubuntu-text.png
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  ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Lsusb:
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:2228 Standard Microsystems Corp. 9-in-2 Card Reader
  MachineType: MEDIONPC MS-7366
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu28
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=f09c0c93-3fca-4d12-b4a6-091855e04e14 ro locale=pt_PT quiet splash
  ProcFB:
   
  ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=f09c0c93-3fca-4d12-b4a6-091855e04e14 ro locale=pt_PT quiet splash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.31-generic 3.2.12
  Tags:  precise
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-14 (6 days ago)
  UserGroups: nopasswdlogin
  dmi.bios.date: 02/25/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A7366MLN.20I
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: MS-7366
  dmi.board.vendor: MEDIONPC
  dmi.board.version: 2.2
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrA7366MLN.20I:bd02/25/2008:svnMEDIONPC:pnMS-7366:pvr2.2:rvnMEDIONPC:rnMS-7366:rvr2.2:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: MS-7366
  dmi.product.version: 2.2
  dmi.sys.vendor: MEDIONPC

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