Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #519891
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 519891

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: Lucid breaks every other day; no gui and no tty (ATI 200M)

Ah, seems our messages missed each other in transit.

> Obviously my system is also bitten by another bug concerning KMS / DRM
> and (older?) ATI cards. This does not always occurr but more often than
> not. I use the 'nomodeset' flag to prevent this one.

Ok, please file a separate bug report on the linux package about the KMS problem.

For the moment, I will assume the plymouth bug you're seeing is related to the use of 'nomodeset' (i.e., it only applies when using the VGA16 framebuffer driver), which seems to be consistent with what other bug reporters are seeing.