Comment 15 for bug 850895

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:37:29AM -0000, WarriorIng64 wrote:
> Okay, I've altered the following lines in my /etc/default/grub:

> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash plymouth:debug=file:/var/log
> /plymouth-debug.log plymouth:force-drm"

> GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

> (I only use one monitor in my setup, btw, so I figured that option would
> be safe to add.)

> And lo and behold, it works! This is the first time I've seen my grub
> menu and Plymouth during boot in quite a long time, albeit in a low
> resolution. It's even centered onscreen, too! I guess this means I can
> finally boot my Natty partition again (although Oneiric's quite nice and
> I plan on sticking with that).

Great! :) Glad to see we're making progress.

> Please let me know if there's anything else you want me to do yet to
> help get this bug actually fixed.

Is plymouth also low resolution, or just grub? The goal is to have plymouth
using best native resolution, *not* 640x480, though the nouveau driver may
just be accepting whatever resolution grub sets up for it.

Does plymouth show up when using *just* plymouth:force-drm, without also
setting GRUB_GFXMODE?

Can you attach the plymouth debug log resulting from booting with
plymouth:force-drm?

Now that you're able to see grub, could you hit 'c' to get a console, grab
out the list of available modes with the 'vbeinfo' command, and post the
list here (screenshot with a camera may be easiest)? Then you can try
stepping through the resolutions one by one with GRUB_GFXMODE to see which
gives the best results on your monitor.

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