no xsplash on boot

[Youri Matthys]

Binary package hint: xsplash

On boot xsplash is not displayed. Only the text on attached picture is displayed on the screen and after this gdm is displayed.

On shutdown I can see the xsplash ubuntu logo.

uname -a
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Linux ltyouri 2.6.31-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 25 06:37:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a
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LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

sudo apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
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xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.telfort.nl karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo apt-cache policy xsplash
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xsplash:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.8.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.telfort.nl karmic/main Packages

lspci output:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
 Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 1451
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
 Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
 Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
 Kernel driver in use: i915
 Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
 Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 1451
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Memory at f2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

I have the same problem on a stock, but up-to-date Xubuntu Karmic install from the beta.

[gbarules2999 (gbarules2999)]

I have the same problem on an up-to-date Ubuntu Karmic Beta.

I have a Toshiba R10. This includes an nVidia Quadro 150M chipset. Otherwise, the hardware is generic and nondescript, and generally matches what the bug reporter has tabulated.

(This is somewhat important because the nearly university around here has roughly six thousand of these laptops floating around - it'd be nice to show off a nice boot for converters!)

[gbarules2999 (gbarules2999)]

I apologize for double posting, but I have two more things that may be of use:

-xsplash did work without any problems when booting off of the LiveCD; only when it was installed did xsplash not work and the text appeared

-On any Linux distribution I've tried on the Toshiba R10, the shutdown graphic was not displayed. There is just a blank, black screen.

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

Seems like X is not starting for some reason.

[Youri Matthys (yourimatthys)]

It seems that this is only present on intel chips. I have an nvidia and an ati box here and here the boot screen is displayed on boot. Unfortunately even on these boxes there is still a lot of text on the display before the boot screen is displayed,

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

@Youri: Nope. Definitely not! My XPS m1330 has an nVidia card and it doesn't work. It never works, neither with the proprietary nor the free nv driver.

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Just updated. I know get a splash (after the first few seconds where it still shows some shell output), but it is the Ubuntu artwork (I am on Xubuntu). Even after uninstalling the Ubuntu Usplash theme package, it still shows the Ubuntu art...

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

Ok, seems like Xubuntu doesn't have an xsplash theme, so never mind. And it looks like I am now affected by Bug 441209 instead...

[Youri Matthys (yourimatthys)]

Please remove the duplicate status. On my system xsplahs is NOT started at all! It goes from grub2 to messages to blank screen to gdm.

On shutdown the xsplash is displayed properly.

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

@Youri: xsplash is not enabled to show at shutdown, so I'm confused by your last post. What do the following 3 commands return for you:

1) dpkg -l usplash
2) dpkg -l xsplash
3) dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz)]

@Youri:

I think, you are mixing up usplash and xsplash. xsplash is the animation you see, *after* is started. It looks like this:

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=xsplash.png>

Do you see this one? If yes, then the duplicate status is justified. The text messages do always appear. What they did is that they removed usplash for bootup which makes you see them. My suggestions was to enable the simple usplash that we see during shutdown also during bootup so you don't see any of the text messages.

Once kms (kernel-based mode-setting) is working, the complete switch to plymouth or similar should be made. I seriously doubt that the bootup will ever get fast enough so the computer boots into X11 quick enough so that xsplash really pays off.

Adrian

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

I'd also like to point out that xsplash's background image is the same image that's used as the background image for gdm, and this is a possible cause for confusion.