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

[Eric Dunbar]

On 12/13/05, Pete Hicks <petong at jah.net> wrote:
> 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.

Any idea how to get out of frame buffer mode?

Also, on a more theoretical level, why would the Mac mini install
default to frame buffer mode? Presumably this isn't the most "user
friendly" (as in scary to the neophyte linuxer) mode available.

Eric.