[Bug 989793] Re: [nouveaufb, efifb] blank screen on startup, "Visual is FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR; not using graphics"

[John Cottier]

The nouveau driver is not very happy. I was just researching in FireFox 
and it hard locked!
Only, Ctrl+Alt+SysReq+r and then Ctrl+Alt+Del worked after that (X 
server would not respond to Ctrl+Alt+BkSpace). Blank display during 
power down (monitor in standby).


On 08/05/12 17:04, John Cottier wrote:
> occasionally I catch brief bits of "Crash report submission stopping" or
> "Broken pipe" on the text. On one occasion it turned my monitor off
> (standby IE no signal) during boot.
>
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Title:
  [nouveaufb, efifb] blank screen on startup, "Visual is
  FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR; not using graphics"

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This boot screen with "Ubuntu" and the dots works fine on the live CD. But after installation it is either a blank  black screen (mostly) or occasionally a purple screen with "ubuntu" in a tiny terminal type character font.
  On shutdown it usually shows purple screen with a tiny white ubuntu and some console type message across the screen.
  Logout briefly shows a black screen with tiny ubuntu text.

  This is on a Dell E521 with an nVidia Geforce 7300 LE card using the nouveau driver. 32 bit PAE kernel.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MachineType: Dell Inc Dimension E521
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu30
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB:
   
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Tags:  precise
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups:
   
  dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.bios.version: 1.1.11
  dmi.board.name: 0CT103
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.board.version: A04
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc:bvr1.1.11:bd08/02/2007:svnDellInc:pnDimensionE521:pvr:rvnDellInc:rn0CT103:rvrA04:cvnDellInc:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Dimension E521
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MachineType: Dell Inc Dimension E521
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu30
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Tags:  precise
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups:
   
  dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.bios.version: 1.1.11
  dmi.board.name: 0CT103
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.board.version: A04
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc:bvr1.1.11:bd08/02/2007:svnDellInc:pnDimensionE521:pvr:rvnDellInc:rn0CT103:rvrA04:cvnDellInc:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Dimension E521
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MachineType: Dell Inc Dimension E521
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu30
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=24932d57-f79e-4449-9703-4f6f382e1412 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Tags:  precise
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups:
   
  dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.bios.version: 1.1.11
  dmi.board.name: 0CT103
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.board.version: A04
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc:bvr1.1.11:bd08/02/2007:svnDellInc:pnDimensionE521:pvr:rvnDellInc:rn0CT103:rvrA04:cvnDellInc:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Dimension E521
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc

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