[Bug 1370707] Re: Plymouth does not display the graphical boot splash

[D. Charles Pyle]

Seeing the same in Trusty 14.04 LTS with kernel 3.16.  I am now at
3.16.0-34 and still see the same behavior.  Every fix I have tried fails
to make it work as it did work in as late as 3.14 kernels, and did work
in all the 3.13 series.  I think that the problem is kernel
configuration in the 3.16 kernels.  I do not know about 3.15 kernels as
none of those I attempted to use would boot my system properly at all.

I have yet to build my own 3.16 kernels to try to track this down but I
have noticed that one of the differences between the 3.13 and 3.14
series kernels, and the 3.16 series kernels, is that
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_UMS is commented out in 3.16 kernels, but not in
either 3.13 or 3.14 series kernels from Ubuntu (at least not the ones I
used, and I have not been building too many of my own kernels this LTS
release, as that kind of defeats the purpose of an LTS release).

I am using a Radeon HD 5750 card with dual, Dell S2440L monitors.

Any further information needed, let me know.  I am going to attempt to
use apport to send up my configuration, and so forth, in a couple
minutes.  Last time I tried it failed in another bug.

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Title:
  Plymouth does not display the graphical boot splash

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When booting from Ubuntu 14.10 daily-live image from 17th September
  2014 Plymouth does display the graphical boot splash. However, once
  Ubuntu 14.10 is installed Plymouth does not display the graphical boot
  splash while the system is booting. Instead just a black screen is
  present up until Unity Greeter is loaded.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: plymouth 0.9.0-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-14.20-generic 3.16.2
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-14-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  BootLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/boot.log'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Sep 17 21:55:35 2014
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-17 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140917)
  MachineType: IBM 2668Q1G
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-14-generic root=UUID=a9e0ac17-222f-4b0b-861d-a8b24df9c911 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-14-generic root=UUID=a9e0ac17-222f-4b0b-861d-a8b24df9c911 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2006
  dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
  dmi.bios.version: 1YET65WW (1.29 )
  dmi.board.name: 2668Q1G
  dmi.board.vendor: IBM
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1YET65WW(1.29):bd08/21/2006:svnIBM:pn2668Q1G:pvrThinkPadT43p:rvnIBM:rn2668Q1G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 2668Q1G
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T43p
  dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

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