Mac mini, Ubuntu splash screen halts video output until X is started (Re: Video output is stopped on Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy) ...)

[Pete Hicks]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:56:39AM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>Hmm. Just updated everything, including new kernel. The screen now
>always stays on (no longer turns off) and the vts keep the screen on
>as does X (vt1-vt7).
>
>However, the splash still doesn't display, and, on vt1 are the same
>errors as were displayed with my previous install, except the version
>number has changed from 2.6.12-9 to 2.6.12-10:
>
>> A bunch of kernel driver related stuff:
>> insmod: can't read:
>> '/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/kernel/drivers/video/vgastate.ko' :  No
>> such file or directory
>> insmod: can't read:
>> '/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-powerpc/kernel/drivers/video/vga16fb.ko' :  No
>> such file or directory
>> usplash: bogl-pcfb.c:194: bogl_pcfb_put: Assertion `yy >= 0 && yy < bogl_yres'
>

The errors you see, and the reason you can not see video until X starts,
is that you are starting up in framebuffer mode.