Binary package hint: plymouth
After upgrading Karmic to Lucid, the splash screen is part-garbled and comes up in very low res and few colours. It looks like it's picking a bad modeline for the monitor, which loses the bottom part of the display.
Occasionally it will also jump into the failsafe X dialog on yet another corrupted screen which seems wrapped over the right edge of the monitor. If I simply choose restart X, it works, but then since I have gdm installed it seems to prefer that over my normal kdm. The desktop then comes up in some very low resolution that I can't correct.
If I remove the splash boot option it'll all work fine.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDmesg:
[ 252.319262] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 355.073400] CPUFREQ: Per core ondemand sysfs interface is deprecated - up_threshold
Date: Thu Apr 22 13:26:32 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo/kubuntu-logo.plymouth
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=38c98076-521e-408e-af6a-2e8e00de0f05 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS M3N72-D ACPI BIOS Revision 0202
dmi.board.name: M3N72-D
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.XX
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSM3N72-DACPIBIOSRevision0202:bd05/28/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM3N72-D:rvr1.XX:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
Hi Julian,
The few colors on the splash screen is a consequence of you having the nvidia binary drivers installed; the only framebuffer plymouth has available to use with such drivers is a 16-color VGA framebuffer. The kubuntu theme could be improved in how it displays on VGA, though; this is bug #551290.
The loss of the bottom part of the display is unfortunately not a bug we can fix as long as we're using the VGA framebuffer, because this is simply how the hardware displays in VGA mode. I don't think 640x480 gets a lot of testing from the hardware vendor on newer widescreen LCDs. :/
Launching gdm from failsafe X is because of broken integration between kdm and the failsafe-x upstart job, which currently *always* expects to launch gdm. This is bug #557930.
Finally, the fact that you land in failsafe mode at all indicates some kind of bug with the X server. Since you're using the nvidia binary drivers, I'll reassign this to the nvidia-