Comment 19 for bug 519891

Tried it.
- Installed plymouth and plymouth-x from repos. Never uninstalled libplymouth2 because that threatens to uninstall about all of the rest of my packages, so that was still there and up to date..
- Rebooted, with 'nomodeset' flag.
- Saw 2 fsck messages in std screen resolution
- Saw the blue/white bars, broken up by messages. No logo, no [ C ].
- Got the garbled screen (left) and blacked out (right)
- Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a normal login-screen straight away (thank you for that info)
- Ran the apport-collect, output is right above

- Closed down and rebooted, without the 'nomodeset' flag
- Got the vertical coloured lines straight away
- Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a different pattern of vertical lines several times, no usable system

- Rebooted once more, repeated the first try; so with 'nomodeset'
- Saw the blue/white bars, broken up by messages. Also saw a [ C ]. No Ubuntu logo.
- Got the garbled screen (left) and blacked out (right)
- Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a normal login-screen straight away.

I will leave Plymouth installed, since I now know how to get a usable system at logon.
Will report back if things change.

Obviously my system is also bitten by another bug concerning KMS / DRM and (older?) ATI cards. This does not always occurr but more often than not. I use the 'nomodeset' flag to prevent this one.

Thanx so far.

cheers
Tom