No Nvidia Splash screen

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OpenSUSE 11.4
Nvidia driver installed from Nvidia repo.
Noveau blacklisted
and nomodeset in menu.lst

I don’t see a Nvidia splash screen but nvidia-settings is available. Effects work fine business. Dual monitors work set up from nvidia-settigs to clone. (It didn’t start this way it failed to enter runlevel 5 after I updated from 11.3 lol)

On my other 11.4 machine I don’t have noveau blacklisted or nomodeset in menu.lst and I occasionally see the Nvidia splash screen on boot.

Is this normal behaviour?

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Maybe you have an xorg.conf left on the former 11.3 machine, if so open it and you’ll most likely see a line ’ Option “NoLogo” '. To avoid the NVIDIA logo from showing enter that line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf, like mine below:


Section "Device"
  Identifier "Default Device"


  #Driver "radeon"
**  Option	"NoLogo"**


  ## Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
  ## (here: "DVI-0") can be figured out via 'xrandr -q'
  #Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Default Monitor"


EndSection
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The original xorg.conf was deleted manually by me as part of the process of getting a boot too run level 5. The one I have now was created by nvidia-settings.


# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 275.21  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02.nvidia.com)  Mon Jul 18 15:01:50 PDT 2011


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG Electronics E2340"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8600 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, CRT-1: 1920x1080 +1920+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1920x1080 +0+0, CRT-1: 1920x1080 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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With this config, it should show the logo… I tend to say this would be an NVIDIA issue. Can you live with it :slight_smile: ?

5

Hi
I have seen it at times, normally just set the option to off and turn
on the overclocking… :wink:


Option     "NoLogo" "true"
Option     "CoolBits" "1"

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 7:45, 4 users, load average: 0.30, 0.22, 0.16
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

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Yea I can live with “it works” but it’s kind of perplexing why it shows up sometimes on the other machine and not at all on this one since I added nomodeset to menu.lst and left off the graphical boot by not leaving “vga=0x31a” in that line.

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Sep 25 22:16:16 PDT 2011
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.6-0.7
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00M2B0_WD-WCAV5R429030-part1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_9QG141S6-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts nomodeset
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.6-0.7
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AADS-00M2B0_WD-WCAV5R429030-part1 showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x31a
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
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But I miss the pretty green logo LOL. :wink:
I guess these options go in xorg.conf as that seems logical.

8

Hi
But that adds another few microseconds onto your boot time :wink:

My only reason is I would rather the system concentrate on setting the
monitors up to the correct resolution rather than the switching of
modes to display the logo.

Yes, in the device section.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 0:21, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.29, 0.25
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13