plymouth splash screen displayed very late while booting with radeon KMS

[Björn Schließmann]

Binary package hint: plymouth

I used "video=1024x768 splash quiet" in the kernel command line during the following. Also, I'm using radeon KMS driver.

After the kernel boots, there is no splash and display stays in 80x25 text mode for a while. Then it switches to 1024x768 text mode, screen still empty, cursor is visible in leftmost column in some middle line. System continues to boot. Then the splash screen appears for a short moment and within 2-3 seconds the gdm login screen is displayed.

This was different a few kernel versions earlier. I suspect the radeon KMS module is loaded much later now whilst booting and plymouth can't cope with that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 25 00:32:10 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
Lsusb:
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2373A91
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=4d015652-6ae1-4e87-acc6-e8c43a344ba5 ro lapic rootflags=data=journal
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETDRWW (3.23 )
dmi.board.name: 2373A91
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETDRWW(3.23):bd06/18/2007:svnIBM:pn2373A91:pvrThinkPadT41:rvnIBM:rn2373A91:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2373A91
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T41
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM