Plymouth splash appears very late with Nvidia hardware

Bug #570090 reported by Delan Azabani
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plymouth (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm currently using Ubuntu Lucid with the proprietary 195.36.15-0ubuntu2 nvidia drivers. With plymouth installed, and the boot options configured correctly ("ro quiet splash") the splash works, but appears very late in the boot process, appearing for only half a second before gdm starts.

I have legacy GRUB. In between the "grub loading" message and the short-lived splash, most of the boot process is only shown as the grub message "Boot from (hd0,0) ext4 <uuid>" -- which would be replaced with boot messages if Ubuntu is booted without "quiet".

This is unlike the process on my laptop with Intel 965 mobile graphics, in which the splash displays immediately for the length of the pre-gdm boot process.

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David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :

Assigning to plymouth.

affects: ubuntu → plymouth (Ubuntu)
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sanctimon (dj.martin) wrote :

Similar here, on a 64-bit system, fresh install (upgraded from 9.04 and then did fresh install to test if it solves the issue). No splash screen appears after GRUB selection. A long black screen, only during the late stages of which the hard drive can be heard doing anything.
Intel Core Two Duo
nVidia GeForce 8800 640MB ("current version" drivers installed, in contrast to versions 173 and 96 also available, but not used).

After a relatively long wait (was not the case with 9.04 and previous versions), there are 5 dots with scrambled colours on screen followed by "Ubuntu" appearing three times on screen with a few dots beneath them. This only lasts a second and then the logon screen appears.

Same phenomenon when shutting down ("Ubuntu" coloured weird and with wague lettering pops up for a second).

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