will the updated fix be Back ported to 12.10? or Earlier? It is an important bug
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-sis in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584339 Title: Old SiS video needs v86d for Lucid Plymouth Status in GetDeb Software Portal: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-video-sis” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The bug I was having with Lucid is best described at http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/ A black screen persists for most of boot-up, showing no progress; then an ugly blast of colored lines followed by a Plymouth screen for a second or two before going to a login screen. What's expected is to see the Plymouth screen and a progression of dots as things proceed. My elderly laptop has the following video: lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter My kernel is as follows: cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-22-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 I had earlier solved a different Plymouth problem, a nasty hangup at fsck, by upgrading mountall, which now is: mountall --version mountall 2.15 Copyright (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd. The blackscreen at the first part of Plymouth was finally solved simply by using synaptic to install the v86d package. No other tweaks were necessary to get past the black screen phenomenon and see the progression of dots as things proceed. This may have brought boot- up down to 56 seconds from 60 as well. Incidentally, the synaptic install does its own initramfs revision to incorporate v86d. In my case I don't get vesafb or uvesafb, but at least the black screen is gone. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/getdeb.net/+bug/584339/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
