Comment 19 for bug 526892
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 526892] Re: No graphical splash on VGA16fb, plymouth uses fallback blue ASCII progress bar | #19 |
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:58 +0000, Nicolas DERIVE wrote:
> vorlon: Why is plymouth displaying better when booting from livecd (or
> usb) than from an installed ubuntu with nvidia driver enabled ?
>
Because when you boot from Live CD, USB or a freshly installed Ubuntu,
you are using the Open Source "nouveau" drivers. We have the source
code to them, we are able to debug them, and we are able to fix the bugs
in them.
You made a choice to use the proprietary, binary, nvidia-glx driver.
This doesn't support many of the modern features of the Linux kernel or
X server. And since it's a binary blob we are unable to debug it, and
we wouldn't have permission to fix bugs even if we could!
So while you get 3D with the nvidia-glx driver, you get bugs we can't do
anything about - and indeed, regressions in 2D support and multihead
now!
Scott
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