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usplash package

does not work at all on amd64 with nvidia card

Bug #60135 reported by Martin Pitt on 2006-09-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #56587: [edgy] usplash segfaults. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	usplash (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

At least with this video card, usplash does not show any graphics at all. On boot I see some error messages scrolling by very fast (in text mode). This happens since the switch to svgalib.

(Not many details here, the issue is well known and has been attempted to be debugged; allegedly it's a problem with the real-mode emulation code).

Matt Zimmerman (mdz) on 2006-09-12

Changed in usplash:
importance:	Untriaged → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-09-13:

screenshot Edit (88.0 KiB, image/jpeg)

during boot, I just see a black screen. Then, immediately before X starts, I see some error messages, I took a screenshot.

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JoseStefan (josestefan) wrote on 2006-09-14:

I can confirm this bug on the following hardware:

AMD64 2800+ (Socket 754)
nVidia 6600 GT (AGP)

Ubuntu Version: edgy-desktop-amd64.iso (knot2)
(Used as a live environment)

Booting from the CD works,
but no splash screen on startup or shutdown.

PS: Works fine with knot1

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JoseStefan (josestefan) wrote on 2006-09-16:

Follow-Up:
Tested with knot3, still no splash

Will try: knot3 (i386) and re-try knot1 (amd64)

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JoseStefan (josestefan) wrote on 2006-09-16:

Test Results:

knot3 (i386) == OK (ubuntu logo)
knot1 (amd64) == OK (looks like VGA or TV test signal, as expected)

knot2 (amd64) = FAILED (blinking underscore)
knot3 (amd64) = FAILED (blinking underscore)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2006-09-21:

This is just a "me-too". It does work with "save graphics mode" though. I set it to milestone "6.10-beta" because it is a regression that affects a lot of users.

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LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb) wrote on 2006-09-21:

I've got this issue as well, as I've reported as #61711, boot splash is not shown, only the blinking cursor, and it's quite long time to reach start of gdm, very slow! Just before starting gdm by upstart, I can even log in with getty, and I see 99% CPU usage of usplash. Booting with kernel parameters 'nosplash and noquiet' makes booting fast again, though not boot slash is shown in this case of course ...

lgb@oxygene:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6200] (rev a2)
lgb@oxygene:~$ uname -a
Linux oxygene 2.6.17-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Sep 19 08:53:32 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It's up-to-date edgy (daily dist-uprade'd) on an AMD64 with nvidia card

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote on 2006-09-22:

Marked this as a duplicate of bug #56587, instead of the other way around, because more progress seems to have been made on the other report.

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote on 2006-09-22:

Removing milestone target (just added the corresponding one to the original report)