So lets drop in the info of the latest experiment. Scott suggested to try making the plymouth drm renderer unavailable (by moving the library). This came up with a splash screen mode that seemed to be higher than the area actually drawn to. But it came up without problems. The differences in the resolutions actually might be a hint as it seems the card always seems to report a connected TV output with a max resolution of 1024x768 and the DVI port which has the monitor attached that has 1280x1024.
So lets drop in the info of the latest experiment. Scott suggested to try making the plymouth drm renderer unavailable (by moving the library). This came up with a splash screen mode that seemed to be higher than the area actually drawn to. But it came up without problems. The differences in the resolutions actually might be a hint as it seems the card always seems to report a connected TV output with a max resolution of 1024x768 and the DVI port which has the monitor attached that has 1280x1024.