Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 20:36
by 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)
Re: Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 21:47
by andrew-lohmann
The Mageia graphic colours and lines look wrong. But often there is no problem at all.
Re: Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 22:16
by doktor5000
What graphics chip and driver do you use?
Please show the output of
- Code: Select all
grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
lspcidrake -v | grep VGA
cat /proc/cmdline
Re: Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 22:30
by andrew-lohmann
I hope that helps you?
Thanks
Re: Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 22:34
by doktor5000
Please next time use code tags as explained in
ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/m ... e_tags.ogvAt least I see you're using the free radeon driver. Problem seems similar to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/564471
Re: Bad start up and closing down screen

Posted:
Apr 1st, '14, 23:26
by 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;