Bug 42974

Summary:	no framebuffer on nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i [10de:07e1]
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	André Lopes (chevelle_c_)
Component:	Video(DRI - non Intel)	Assignee:	drivers_video-dri
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	high	CC:	alan, szg00000
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	v3.3-rc7-precise	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description André Lopes 2012-03-22 00:02:27 UTC

The plymouth splash comes up using the text theme instead of using the high-resolution graphical splash.

The answer is that your kernel has not brought up a framebuffer, so plymouth has no way to display the graphics.

lspci output shows the following:

00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] [10de:07e1] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:736b]
  Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
  Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 0
  Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
  Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
  Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
  Region 3: Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
  Expansion ROM at fea40000 [disabled] [size=128K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

Neither the nouveau nor the nvidiafb driver is loaded, according to /proc/modules on your system. This explains why there's no framebuffer, but is very unusual.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961349

Comment 1 Marcin Slusarz 2012-09-01 12:25:26 UTC

You probably have nouveau blacklisted / disabled by nomodeset/modeset=0