Hi Steve, sorry for my late reply (I was at a sprint). I agree with your
conclusions but I'd like to partially revert your changes.
You removed a feature which allowed packagers to blacklist single card
ids to prevent them from using the boot splash in case of nasty
interactions with the NVIDIA
** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
** Changed in: fglrx-installer-updates (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
** Changed in:
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers -
280.13-0ubuntu5
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (280.13-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low
* Drop /usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist handling; there's
nothing about binary drivers in particular that requires
Alberto, please revert these blacklists. Blacklisting the cards in grub
causes a significant regression to the user experience when NOT booting
in recovery mode - systems that had a perfectly working flicker-free
boot from grub to plymouth even when using the binary nvidia drivers now
have a text
Also, note that this issue is NOT specific to binary drivers! I can
reproduce the problem on a system with an intel video card when
gfxpayload=keep. The issue is that during a normal boot, plymouth
handles the transition from graphics mode to text mode for the VT
(plymouth show-splash /
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/oneiric/grub2/oneiric
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Title:
boot to rescue mode in Oneiric
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I committed this before noticing that Steve had assigned the bug to
himself :-)
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon) = Colin Watson (cjwatson)
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This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99-12ubuntu5
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* Never use 'set gfxpayload=keep' in recovery mode (LP: #854967).
-- Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:30:39 +0100
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/grub2
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boot to rescue mode in Oneiric
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** Patch added: patch for bugs 864149 and 854967
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly-recovery/+bug/854967/+attachment/2494190/+files/nvidia-graphics-864149%2C854967.diff
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fact not a
** Also affects: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: fglrx-installer-updates (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New = In Progress
** Changed in: fglrx-installer-updates
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates -
96.43.20-0ubuntu4
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates (96.43.20-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates -
173.14.30-0ubuntu4
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (173.14.30-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 -
173.14.30-0ubuntu7
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (173.14.30-0ubuntu7) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of hyphens (LP:
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates -
280.13-0ubuntu4
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates (280.13-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of hyphens (LP:
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers -
280.13-0ubuntu4
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (280.13-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of hyphens (LP: #855396).
-
This bug was fixed in the package fglrx-installer-updates -
2:8.881-0ubuntu5
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fglrx-installer-updates (2:8.881-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules, debian/modaliases/fglrx_supported:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores
This bug was fixed in the package fglrx-installer - 2:8.881-0ubuntu3
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fglrx-installer (2:8.881-0ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules, debian/modaliases/fglrx_supported:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of hyphens
This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 -
96.43.20-0ubuntu5
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (96.43.20-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low
* debian/rules:
- Make sure that the module alias is always correct and
uses underscores instead of hyphens (LP:
** Tags added: kubuntu
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** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates (Ubuntu)
Marking the bug as invalid on friendly-recovery's side as it's not
something I can fix in friendly-recovery itself.
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Adding a task for each of the nvidia binary source packages. I'd suggest
the gfxpayload blacklist shipped in each of these be updated to
blacklist the nvidia chipsets (the blacklist currently shipped in these
packages is empty).
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Importance:
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in:
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