Ubuntu 8.04 does not diisplays the Graphic Boot interface

[G. Arena]

Starting Ubuntu, soon after clicking on the Grub Ubuntu line, the word Starting appears an the screen goes blank Black and stays so for all the booting time, (approx 180 seconds). untill the Gnome X-window appears.
The Shoot down informations takes place in NO graphical mode.
I experienced the same problem with Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10.

Version: Ubuntu 8.04 Upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 29 10:11:55 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/locusernamel/sbin:/usr/locusernamel/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gusernamemes
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/busernamesh
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Jens (jens.timmerman)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better.

is usplash enabled on boot time?
to enable it (for one time):

1.Press Esc during Grub boot delay to access the boot menu.
2.Select your actual Ubuntu boot line and press "e" to edit it.
3.Select the "kernel" line and press "e" to edit it.
4.At the end of the line, add "splash" and "quiet" and press "enter".
5.Type "b" to boot the custom boot line.

[G. Arena (narea92)]

I tried the above suggestion with no success. The computer still does not have a Graphical Booting.

Gaetano Arena

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

What happens after you press e? What is displayed on the line?

If "splash" is already there, can you remove it? You won't be able to have a graphical boot, but that way your screen will not be blank.

[G. Arena (narea92)]

The following screen appears:
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vnlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
initrd /boot/initrd.ing-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

I did two additional tests:
1) I erased quiet
 result: No change. A Blank, Black screen for approx 180 seconds.
Then,
2) I added to the end: quiet splash
  result: no change. Still a Black Blank screen.

Gaetano Arena

[G. Arena (narea92)]

Some of the latest Update, ( I don't know which ), has reduced the boot time to 59 seconds.
But still a Blank, Black screen during Booting and Shutdown. No Graphic Interface of any sort!.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

G. Arena : Thanks for your answer. Can you provide the following informations to help us finding what is the cause of your bug?

The file created by this command in a terminal : sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.txt
The file created by this command in a terminal : cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > menu.lst
The file created by this command in a terminal : dmesg > dmesg.txt
The output of this command in a terminal : cat /etc/usplash.conf
The output of this command in a terminal : uname -a

[G. Arena (narea92)]

G. Arena wrote:
> Some of the latest Update, ( I don't know which ), has reduced the boot time to 59 seconds.
> But still a Blank, Black screen during Booting and Shutdown. No Graphic Interface of any sort!.
>
>
Mr. S. Carignan,
Please find attached the requested files.
Thank you very much for your interest.
Yours,
Gaetano Arena

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thank you very much for providing these informations. This bug has been already identified as bug 68012 and happens with most or all Intel 828xx cards. As a workaround, you can access the BIOS of your computer and try to increase "Onboard Video Buffer" from 1 MB to 8 MB. Since this bug report is a duplicate, I mark it as such. Thanks again for the time you spent to improve that bug report.

[G. Arena (narea92)]

Saïvann Carignan wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68012 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68012
>
> Thank you very much for providing these informations. This bug has been
> already identified as bug 68012 and happens with most or all Intel 828xx
> cards. As a workaround, you can access the BIOS of your computer and try
> to increase "Onboard Video Buffer" from 1 MB to 8 MB. Since this bug
> report is a duplicate, I mark it as such. Thanks again for the time you
> spent to improve that bug report.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 68012
> [Intel 828xx] No usplash on boot/shutdown
>
>
Thank you for your attention.
I want to point out that the same PC was working properly when was
loaded with Ubuntu 7.04 and Kernel 2.16.15-23-i386 as reported by me in
Bug #126433.
Only after the update to Kernel 2.6.20-16 the PC start to malfunction
and it has done so despite the various Update and Upgrade.
Should not an Update improve a system instead of rendering it worse!.
Yours,
Gaetano Arena

[G. Arena (narea92)]

Saïvann Carignan wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68012 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68012
>
> Thank you very much for providing these informations. This bug has been
> already identified as bug 68012 and happens with most or all Intel 828xx
> cards. As a workaround, you can access the BIOS of your computer and try
> to increase "Onboard Video Buffer" from 1 MB to 8 MB. Since this bug
> report is a duplicate, I mark it as such. Thanks again for the time you
> spent to improve that bug report.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 68012
> [Intel 828xx] No usplash on boot/shutdown
>
>
Mr. S. Carignan,
I increased the Video memory to 8 MegaByte as suggested by you, and the
PC now works fine.
Gratefully I thank you for your effort and
I remain yours,

Gaetano Arena

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thank you for your confirmation! At least this bug is now well known so developers can take a look at this and easily reproduce and work on it. I can't fix this actually because I am not a developer (sorry). At least, you can now enjoy a full working usplash without any side effects. You said that the boot time of your PC reduced, can you put a comment about this in bug 126433 ? I think that the overall normal boot time for ubuntu is around 40-50 seconds.

[G. Arena (narea92)]

Saïvann Carignan wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68012 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68012
>
> Thank you for your confirmation! At least this bug is now well known so
> developers can take a look at this and easily reproduce and work on it.
> I can't fix this actually because I am not a developer (sorry). At
> least, you can now enjoy a full working usplash without any side
> effects. You said that the boot time of your PC reduced, can you put a
> comment about this in bug 126433 ? I think that the overall normal boot
> time for ubuntu is around 40-50 seconds.
>
>
Mr S. Carignan,
after increasing the Video Memory to 8 MByte, as per your suggestion,
the booting time, (measured up to the time when the screen changes to a
light color ), is reduced to only 33 Seconds!!.
Yours,
Gaetano Arena