Comment 8 for bug 1637347

v4.6.0-rc1 boot test observations.. Booting without quiet,splash

Boot text at low resolution until this point: (journalctl -o short-monotonic)

    3.306180] jhm-Inspiron-1520 kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
    (Display goes black here)

Boot text returns at high resolution at this point: journalctl -o short-monotonic)

    5.385111] jhm-Inspiron-1520 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
    (Text returns with colors on)
    (With later kernel versions this text return time gets later and later..25 seconds for v4.8.0

Screen goes black here: (Xorg.0.log)

    [ 32.662]
    X.Org X Server 1.18.4
    Release Date: 2016-07-19

Screen switches off for a second here: (Xorg.0.log): (It seems every version I've ever used turns off the display before going to the GUI...annoying)

    [ 49.710] (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0 75.50 1280 1344 1392 1512 800 803 809 832 -hsync -vsync (49.9 kHz eP)

After this the Xubuntu background and login appear.