Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 482770
startup splash displayed two times and in weird colors on ThinkPad R51e
Last modified: 2009-12-18 02:42:57 EST
Created attachment 330181 [details] Weird start up splash photo Description of problem: I just updated my ThinkPad R51e from F9 to F10 and the startup splash is really messed up (see the attached photo). My smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_d482fdbf-1991-4155-8144-bae766035dd0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Always.
Next observation: If and only if *sometimes* the splash comes correct, the laptop hangs just before it should start X.
OK, I accidentally managed to find the most probable reason/workaround -- after removing "vga=791" from grub command line, it works in approx. 4 of 5 cases. In the remaining case there is a backtrace displayed for a very short time, plymouth comes then in text mode and hangs after before starting X (*always*). Is there any way how to stop the boot process right after the backtrace before the fallback to text mode? Btw, I wondered that even after removing vga=791, if the computer successfully starts, the framebuffer is active.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Is the situation still the same? Have you tried to boot with "nomodeset" as a kernel boot argument? What graphics driver is in use with your ati card? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I have currently no access to that machine, will get to it in about a month.
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