The latest NVIDIA drivers now support KMS, so in theory plymouth can be made to work on them now. however none of this is likely to happen for the initial 16.04 release
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1469303 Title: NVIDIA does not work with framebuffer drivers Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu: New Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: >On my Latitude E6420 running Kubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) with all updates, there is no splash screen. Instead, I just see text. This laptop has Nvidia graphics, though Optimus is disabled so that is not the issue Rereporting #1063969 After installing proprietary Nvidia drivers - framebuffer resolution can't be set bigger than VGA and plymouth do not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/1469303/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
