Tried it. - Installed plymouth and plymouth-x from repos. Never uninstalled libplymouth2 because that threatens to uninstall about all of the rest of my packages, so that was still there and up to date.. - Rebooted, with 'nomodeset' flag. - Saw 2 fsck messages in std screen resolution - Saw the blue/white bars, broken up by messages. No logo, no [ C ]. - Got the garbled screen (left) and blacked out (right) - Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a normal login-screen straight away (thank you for that info) - Ran the apport-collect, output is right above
- Closed down and rebooted, without the 'nomodeset' flag - Got the vertical coloured lines straight away - Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a different pattern of vertical lines several times, no usable system - Rebooted once more, repeated the first try; so with 'nomodeset' - Saw the blue/white bars, broken up by messages. Also saw a [ C ]. No Ubuntu logo. - Got the garbled screen (left) and blacked out (right) - Alt-Sysreq-k gave me a normal login-screen straight away. I will leave Plymouth installed, since I now know how to get a usable system at logon. Will report back if things change. 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. Thanx so far. cheers Tom -- Lucid breaks every other day; no gui and no tty (ATI 200M) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs