Bad start up and closing down screen

[andrew-lohmann]

The start up and closing screens behave erratically.

This occurs on Mageia 3 & 4 it also occurs with many other Linux's except Manjaro which does not have a graphical start up and closing screen.

I asked the question on Linux Mate forum and the reply was that there is a problem with Plymouth.

The screen I am using is a SyncMaster 151s (set to 1024 x 768, 70Hz)

[doktor5000]

The start up and closing screens behave erratically.

In what way?

[andrew-lohmann]

The Mageia graphic colours and lines look wrong. But often there is no problem at all.

[doktor5000]

What graphics chip and driver do you use?
Please show the output of

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grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
lspcidrake -v | grep VGA
cat /proc/cmdline

[doktor5000]

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[andrew@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    35.731]    X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
[    35.731]    X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
[    35.760] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so
[    35.760]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[    35.761] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
[    35.761]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    35.761]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[    35.762] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
[    35.767]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    35.767]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[    35.767] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
[    35.767] (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets:
[    35.785]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
[    35.861] (II) RADEON(0): EXA: Driver will not allow EXA pixmaps in VRAM
[    35.862] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: radeon
[    35.862] (II) RADEON(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: radeon
[    35.862] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
[    35.862] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
[    35.878] (EE) AIGLX error: Calling driver entry point failed
[    39.675]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    39.675]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 19.1
[    39.675] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    39.813] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    39.818] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'PixArt USB Optical Mouse'
[    39.828] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.832] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'

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[andrew@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v | grep VGA
Card:ATI Radeon HD 4870 and earlier: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]|ES1000 [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:515e subv:1014 subd:0325) (rev: 01)

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[andrew@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-desktop root=UUID=4007a7c9-cfa8-47cd-a2fa-b424f096fb77 ro splash quiet resume=UUID=c88d2941-73be-43e3-a4f9-d99fa43eb501
[andrew@localhost ~]$

[andrew-lohmann]

I hope that helps you?
Thanks

[doktor5000]

Please next time use code tags as explained in ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/m ... e_tags.ogv

At least I see you're using the free radeon driver. Problem seems similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/564471

[andrew-lohmann]

I will bare tags in mind - sorry.

The behaviour is worse on Ubuntu based distros particularly Mint. There is no problem with Grub screen or the normal screen when Linux is running.

This is what Mint referred to about the problem;

http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/plymouth
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-10-24_Ubuntu-Maverick_-Plymouth-Is-the-Worst-Thing-That-Happened-To-Linux.html