usplash not showing text

[John Vivirito]

Binary package hint: usplash

the usplash version 0.4-17 is not showing text in the box as it boots or shutdown/reboot. im using vesa drivers at this time because of nvidia and linux-source issues. The progress bar moves just no text is scrolled.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This is expected behavour.

[Henrik Nyberg (henrik-mysko)]

I am running Edgy with usplash version 0.4-29, and I have this problem as well. The box where the text is supposed to appear remains empty, while the progress bar moves normally. I don't know if this could be related or not, but during boot, the screen is put into a high resolution mode and the splash image is shown in the middle with large black borders, instead of covering the entire screen as it used to.

I cannot tell exactly when this regression occured, since I rarely reboot my computer, but it has been working perfectly previously, some weeks ago maybe.

My graphics card is a ATI Radeon Mobility 9700.

I do not know what information could help with resolving this bug, but I will happily provide any information that you ask for.

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

Usplash will not print any text unless you remove the "quiet" option from the kernel command line.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

"quiet" is an argument to the _kernel_. Can we please /not/ overload this for controlling usplash verbosity.

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

What's the use case for them being separate?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Indeed, I find it rather elegant that we are using the same argument rather than trying to add two arguments with a different meaning.

"quiet" - don't give me any unnecessary messages during boot

That means no kernel debug (just errors), no boot debug (just errors), etc.

By removing that, you're stating that for some reason you want to see scrolling messages, probably because you're debugging something or just bored. It makes sense that it activates everything.

This is why the initscripts/lsb-base follow the same message, and will not output to the console if "quiet" is found on the command-line