[Bug 771905] Re: No logo at boot on nvidia card

[Psychotron]

@Lekensteyn: Good catch! Your workaround works great! Thanks a lot!

So, users of proprietary Nvidia (and probably ATI/AMD as well) can do
the same for the vesafb driver.

Create a file /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load-vesafb with
content:

#!/bin/sh
modprobe vesafb

Then make it executable:

chmod 755 /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load-vesafb

And update initramfs:

update-initramfs -u

And voila you should have your graphical boot screen back! (of course
you need to set grub to graphical boot again)


Now if we are lucky 12.10 will already contain a fix for this ... of course, we shall not use evil proprietary drivers anyway ...SCNR

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Title:
  No logo at boot on nvidia card

Status in The Plymouth splash screen:
  Confirmed
Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  Hello,
  I have a Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS, with proprietary drivers, and I am using Ubuntu Natty.

  Since I updated to Natty (it was the Beta 2 version), plymouth only
  shows a purple screen, without logo and without dots. It's simply
  purple.

  Note that, before updating, I had already solved the issue which made
  plymouth show the Ubuntu logo textual theme instead of the graphic one
  with proprietary drivers on Nvidia cards, so I don't think it's
  related (unless some of the files I modified were reset during the
  update, I don't know). This time, however, I don't even get the
  "default" text theme.

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