[Bug 439004] Re: 9.10 bootup lacks refinement (excessive scrolling, font + text-mode switches)

[Paul Sladen]

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: sysvinit
- 
  As of 2009-09-29, a boot of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha looks like this:
  
   0:00 power switch on
   0:05 BIOS boilerplate
   0:20 Grub menu (80x25, VGA font) + count down begins
   0:25 "Starting up..." (80x25, VGA font)
   0:27 Text font change (80x25, custom font)
   0:45 Text mode change (160x50, VGA font)
   1:00 Text font change (160x50, custom font)
   1:05 Black (completely blank) screen
   1:08 Xsplash, arrow pointer
   1:17 GDM login (...user interaction required)
   1:24 Xsplash, hourglass pointer
   1:38 Backlight brightness level change
   1:39 GNOME top + bottom panels appear
   1:48 Desktop background loaded
   2:04 Desktop Icons *start* appearing
   2:24 Desktop Icons *finish* appearing (448 items)
   2:25 Click Firefox loader icon
   2:47 Firefox appears
  
  There are around ~10 times during boot when the screen has visibly
  jarred/changed without due cause (eg. font, or brightness change).
- There is *30 seconds* of 1990s classic scrolling text bootup (primarily
- udev and ntp error messages).
+ There is *30 seconds* of 1990s-style classic scrolling text bootup
+ (primarily udev and ntp error messages).
  
- Ideally font and text mode dimensions changes should be combed.
+ Ideally font and text mode dimensions changes should be combined to
+ occur at the same point in time.
  
- Ideally usplash should be displayed if textual scroll will have has been
+ Ideally Usplash should be displayed if textual scroll will have has been
  displayed for more ~3 seconds.

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9.10 bootup lacks refinement (excessive scrolling, font + text-mode switches)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439004
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