Gutsy rc boot is a dark experience

Roman Makurin drolyk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 17:25:15 UTC 2007


В Срд, 17/10/2007 в 20:08 +0300, Ari Torhamo пишет:
> ke, 2007-10-17 kello 12:34 -0400, Bruce Marshall kirjoitti:
> > On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 
> > > Once grub passes control to the kernel, the screen goes black.  It stays
> > > that way until the login screen shows up.  In between is a
> > > discouragingly long time when the only sign of life is the disk activity
> > > LED.  I've learned to be patient, knowing that the system will
> > > eventually come back to me, but it sure would be nice to have my display
> > > back during the boot process.
> 
> > 
> > Yes, this is a problem.....
> > 
> > The workaround for the moment would be to add   vga=normal  on the kernel boot 
> > line.
> > 
> > I would also remove for the moment the   "quiet splash" options on the kernel 
> > line.  This should give you a text line boot where you can see what is 
> > happening and then you can work from there to find the right options.
> > 
> > I think something is seriously farkled with the kernel's framebuffer usage as 
> > the settings I used to use in feisty (vga=795) no longer work in  gutsy.
> > 
> > I'm still playing with the settings.
> 
> 
> I'm experiencing this too. I tried to search for a bug report about the
> problem, but couldn't find one. I thought that there propably is one and
> I just missed it. Your message hints that the developers are aware of
> the problem, but could you confirm this just to be sure. Otherwise I'll
> file a bug report (after searching for one again).
> 
> Ari Torhamo

I`ve got msotly the same problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151490

> 
> 
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