[Bug 2063109] Re: Plymouth uses the text-based boot screen on some machines, sometimes

[Daniel van Vugt]

That's been fixed for 4 years already. The timeouts that caused bug
1838725 were due to the kernel graphics driver (i915) taking more than 5
seconds to start. But in Noble we load simpledrm immediately in the
first second or two so that *should* never happen.

Of course Plymouth is fussy and will refuse to use simpledrm until the
timeout has expired. It should always be able to use simpledrm after
that 8 seconds in the worst case.

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Title:
  Plymouth uses the text-based boot screen on some machines, sometimes

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On several flavors (I have confirmed Ubuntu Unity and Lubuntu thus
  far), if the machine does not have much resources, it falls back to
  the text-based Plymouth boot screen.

  Steps to reproduce:
   - Find a machine with 1 core and 2 GB of RAM, a virtual machine will do.
   - Boot up a live ISO of Lubuntu or Ubuntu Unity.

  Expected result: the appropriate graphical splash screen is shown.
  Actual result: Only the text-based splash screen for Plymouth is shown.

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