plymouth text messages fail with radeon.modeset=0
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: plymouth
Testing 10.04 release i386 on my machine and I found that adding radeon.modeset=0 to the /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_
However, as side effect of this is it kills the output of splash screen text that plymouth normally reports from a back-up script using the command:
plymouth message --text="something to say"
This is in both with the version shipped with 10.04 and the unstable test 0.8.2-2ubuntu3~ppa1 version. (As an aside, why has plymouth not got a --version command option?)
Initially I though it was the VGA style mode that radeon.modeset=0 seems to select, but on removing radeon.modeset=0 then shutting down, plymouth was still using VGA-like resolution but the text appeared OK. So it is either random, or it is directly down to the radeon selection parameter.
I expected to see messages, and there was nothing except, perhaps, a brief flash of a grey rectangle around the logo position (not below it where the text usually goes).
Some machine info in case it helps:
sudo hwinfo --bios | grep Socket
Socket: "J3E1"
Socket Type: 0x01 (Other)
Socket Status: Populated
Location: 0x00 (Internal, Not Socketed)
Location: 0x00 (Internal, Not Socketed)
sudo hwinfo --gfxcard | grep Modules
Driver Modules: "drm"
sudo hwinfo --gfxcard | grep Model
Model: "PC Partner Radeon X300 (PCIE)"
Model: "PC Partner Radeon X300SE"
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Architecture: i386
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Viglen D945GTP
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu3~ppa1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSign
Tags: lucid
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 09/29/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: NT94510J.
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: D945GTP
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAC97844-303
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCor
dmi.product.name: D945GTP
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Viglen
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