Thanks for trying that, though.
What graphics card are you using? And did the above change have *any* effect
at all?
If you do CTRL+ALT+F6 when the corrupted image appears and then immediately
thereafter CTRL+ALT+F7 what do you see? I get a brief flash of black (as it
switches to the other console) and then it displays the Plymouth animation
correctly (without removing vt.handoff in my case). If you aren't getting
that then you might be having a different problem because the vt.handoff
thing tries to maintain the video memory and by switching you clear that
(http://askubuntu.com/questions/32999/what-is-vt-handoff-7-parameter-in-grub-cfg).
Could you try one more thing? Try to enable the framebuffer for Plymouth and
see if it makes a difference:
sudo -s
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y >>/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
update-initramfs -u
I would really like to get some sort of fix for this, even if it has to be
done after the installation. In my opinion this could be a problem if someone
wants to try Trisquel as their first GNU/Linux distro and they see a broken
splash screen. It's easy for them to then claim that either "Linux is
broken", or that because of "freedom extremism" the system is broken, even
though this is an upstream/Ubuntu error.
I suppose I should track it on their side, but the bug report I mentioned in
the beginning has not been resolved and if I use the proprietary Nvidia
driver it does not cause corruption. Given that there does not seem to be a
universal solution when using nouveau, using the proprietary driver will be
their solution and this is not acceptable in our case.
