Before you ask, yes splash=silent is added as a boot option.
Instead, I get very slowly scrolling text making the notebook boot ridiculously slow.
I recognize that the code is the SUSE startup code…but I don’t understand why it shows. I have 3D acceleration on my vid card (Nvidia 8200M G). It’s also not the SUSE branded verbose either, just small white text that scrolls like the desktop did before I installed Nvidia drivers.
Ideas?
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> Before you ask, yes splash=silent is added as a boot option.
This turns off the bootsplash (Green screen with scrolling status bar)
> Instead, I get very slowly scrolling text making the notebook boot
> ridiculously slow.
This is what you get by default when the splash is disabled using
splash=silent. The scrolling text is not making your system slow, you are
watching the boot process which occurs regardless of whether you see it or
not.
I guess the documentation I was looking at was wrong.:\
Thanks for clearing it up.
Bump’d
It seems modifying the splash screen parameters (splash=verbose) didn’t bring it back. I’m still stuck with it.
I’m not sure what’s wrong now.
Did you try
splash=silent vga=0x317
has no effect
Try adding this to the Boot Options:
edd=off
Also, make sure that the vga=xxxxx is using a vesa framebuffer resolution that your video device supports. You can usually see that by doing (as root):
hwinfo --framebuffer
But note that the EDID reported to the video device bios is not always correct.
Also, this has nothing whatsoever to do with X server driver - at boot X has not yet started, the driver is not engaged. What is being used is “vesafb”, which is cooked into the kernel.