Comment 71 for bug 438335

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Robbie Williamson (robbiew) wrote : Re: [Bug 438335] Re: Boot messages show before xsplash kicks in

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:32 +0000, Id2ndR wrote:
> A friend of mine still get about 5 lines of messages in VT that appears
> between usplash and xsplash. I haven't try console=tty6 for this
> computer.
>
> Is there other personn with this issue ? I saw about 6 computers with karmic and there are 2 which still display these lines:
> - the one of a friend (with proprietary nvidia). It seems that usplash crashed when X was loading nvidia modules.
> - my laptop (with intel KMS) bug I don't have any idea of the cause.
>

Shouldn't need "console=tty6" anymore. The "quiet" kernel option
combined with changes to usplash /should/ be squelching most messages.
However, there is an allowance for messages underneath the black and
white usplash logo for things like fsck messages and such. What are the
5 lines your friend is seeing?

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