Tumbleweed’s boot splash screen sometimes doesn’t display properly. I see this thing above… Instead of the blue screen with the dots and the tumbleweed’s icon. How do we fix this?
This has been an issue for a year or more.
It seems to have something with monitor recognition (I think). At present, I see it happening on computer with Intel graphics and on a computer with nvidia graphics (nouveau driver). And it’s random. Sometime it happens and sometimes I get the normal plymouth graphic screen.
Yes I have intel and nvidia too
Hmm… that’s a pity, it is such a nice splash screen
Maybe if I use another one I won’t get this issue? There are a couple in kde-look.org…
Also, where can I report bugs about openSUSE? Like this one?
I’ll add a few more data points:
- I began noticing posts in the forum about this roughly a year ago too, and my intel based laptop did indeed exhibit this, though in my case it wasn’t particularly random – I’d guessitimate that 80% of boots used to show the plymouth splash correctly, and 20% (obviously) nadda.
“Used to” were the keys words above, for, likely about five or six months ago, its become solid 0% plymouth and 100% MIA
- My radeon based workstation (sporting two radeon adapters):
Used to always show the plymouth splash on the monitors connected to each adapter.
Once again, “used to” are the key words. Likely in around kernel 4.2 or 4.3 timeframe, the plymouth splash is now only displayed on the monitors attached to one of the graphics adapters. Sadly, its the secondary adapter in my scheme of things, so I don’t see the splash unless I’m utilizing both sets of monitors/adapters
It seems to have something with monitor recognition (I think)
I don’t think that’s the case. I think its a problem in plymouthd (the daemon) and/or in conjunction with the kernel driver for the graphics adapter.
There’s a recent bug report (or maybe it’s a factory mailing list message) that claims it is because grub2 no longer sets VGA parameters for the display.
I have no idea whether that’s true.
If I power on the computer, then power in the display, the longer before I power on the display the more likely it is that I get the text theme (those three question marks) instead of the normal theme. Or, at least, that’s my impression.
Could someone who experiences it show dmesg output for cases of normal splash and broken splash? Just dmesg immediately after boot if you see those question marks.
I saw these yesterday in my recent Tumbleweed installation. I’ll grab the dmesg output for both the good and the bad cases and post them when I get home, I’m confident I should be easily able to reproduce the issue.
I’m also on Intel (Haswell) Graphics.