When plymouth splash is used, resolutions fail to "stick" on NVIDIA cards

[Delan Azabani]

Binary package hint: plymouth

When plymouth is installed and running on my computer (with a NVIDIA GTX 260) the Ubuntu splash displays properly but my displays always start at 1440x900 - not the 1680x1050 intended, even if I forcefully specify it in xorg.conf. Running:

sudo apt-get purge ^plymouth-theme-.*\$

to remove all plymouth themes, hence leaving the computer with no splash to run, fixes the problem, so I think that is the cause.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.1-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 3 10:44:48 2010
DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45T-UD3P
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1950f462-9790-4f2e-9a56-316e28275e03 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en
 LANG=en_AU.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: 04/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7
dmi.board.name: EP45T-UD3P
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd04/16/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEP45T-UD3P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEP45T-UD3P:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: EP45T-UD3P
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia

Plymouth is not setting the resolution, all it's doing is opening and using the 640x480 VGA framebuffer. That this changes the resolution used by the nvidia driver afterwards looks like a bug in the nvidia driver.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.