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I've been having a non smooth transition from plymouth for a while now (at least in F-14 too). I didn't bother filing a bug before because I blamed plymouth / initscripts / whatever and wanted to investigate first. The problem is that when gdm (and thus Xorg) starts the screen gets corrupted, with a pattern which looks as if it has switched to a wrong pitch. I've a single monitor, which is attached to my main workstation both through a good old vga connector with a kvm so I can display my other systems too, as well as through a dvi cable for better picture quality (my monitor allows my to switch and unless I'm using multiple machines I'm using the dvi input. FWIW the dvi cable is plugged to the "primary" dvi port of my X1950 where as the vga cable is connected to the secondary dvi port through a vga to dvi adapter. Xorg thus sees my single monitor twice (which is fine). I've investigated the non smooth transition from plymouth, and I think it is caused by Xorg choosing a different layout for the 2 monitors (next to each other rather then clones) then kvm initially does, see xorg.log (which I will attach later, currently I booted with only the dvi cable connected to verify my theory.
Created attachment 489653 [details] xorg.log Note this is on a fully up2date F-15 system. Also I just noticed the following in dmesg, which is not there with a single monitor (one cable connected) setup, which could be relevant: kernel: [ 12.719101] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
Could we get output of dmesg attached to this bug as well? Most funny stuff (as you certainly know) is going on in the kernel these days. Xorg.0.log doesn't look like anything special.
Created attachment 489722 [details] dmesg output on the system in question, in the multi mon setup in question.
Quick guess is that we copy from plymouth which is untiled to X which is tiled.
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