It's very unlikely that the kernel could be tricked into thinking there's EFI when there isn't. And Dell were early adopters of EFI. I think this is a genuine bug in the efi->nouveaufb hand-off.
Can you run the 'sudo fbset -i' command mentioned in my previous mail so we can see what it says about your video card? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989793 Title: [nouveaufb, efifb] blank screen on startup, "Visual is FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR; not using graphics" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/989793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
