On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:53:38PM -0000, UnstableGhost wrote: > > Please file a separate bug report, detailing how plymouth "doesn't handle" > > nvidia drivers for you. For the vast majority of users, it's working as > > intended.
> As far as I know KMS is not available for NVIDIA\ATI proprietary > drivers, and plymouth without KMS is 16 color ugliness (ignoring that > fact that I see blank screen for like 10 seconds, then ugly splash for 3 > and then blank screen again). That is what I call "does not handle", and > if I understand right, that is what you call "working as intended". How > many can have 16/24 bit splash, without blank screens, on a proprietary > graphics drivers? Yes, that's as intended. It's not optimal, but there are a variety of practical limitations that constrain us from providing the identical experience with the proprietary drivers as with the free ones. > > Because plymouth isn't a splash screen, it's a boot I/O multiplexer. > Why not to split actual I/O multiplexer and graphical splash into two > separate packages? So that the ones that dont need (on server) or don't > want splash (KMSless users) can completely remove it. Er, they are split in separate packages. If you don't want the graphical splash, you can remove the plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo package. Or you can boot without the 'splash' option to get a text-only view, which is in fact the default on new installs of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server; though this causes some problems in the rare cases when you *do* need to interact at boot time, as documented in the release notes. > If I can't get 24 bit, smooth splash on 10.04 - fine, I would like to get > console with messages from kernel - but I can't get that, even when I > remove "quite splash", it is still displaying blank screen, and sometimes > I can see damaged console text during shutdown. If you're still having this problem even when booting without the "quiet splash" options, then that's something quite different, and not, I think, related to plymouth itself. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- Remove plymouth destroying system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531331 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
