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plymouth package

  1. Bug #519891
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 519891

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Tom Louwrier (tom-louwrier) wrote : Re: [Bug 519891] Re: Lucid breaks every other day; no gui and no tty (ATI 200M)

OK

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Ah, seems our messages missed each other in transit.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Ok, please file a separate bug report on the linux package about the KMS
> problem.
>
> For the moment, I will assume the plymouth bug you're seeing is related
> to the use of 'nomodeset' (i.e., it only applies when using the VGA16
> framebuffer driver), which seems to be consistent with what other bug
> reporters are seeing.
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