Bug 42974 - no framebuffer on nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i [10de:07e1]
Summary: no framebuffer on nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i [10de:07e1]
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: drivers_video-dri
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Reported: 2012-03-22 00:02 UTC by André Lopes
Modified: 2016-04-29 15:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: v3.3-rc7-precise
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Regression: No
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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
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