On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:33 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Christopher David Desjardins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a couple of questions regarding grub and plymouth and whether > > what I'm seeing may or may not be a bug. > > > > First, when I boot my laptop I am usually greeted by a GRUB menu with a > > background image, this is not the case in F10. Instead, my laptop goes > > automatically into booting from a blank screen. Then I get a couple of > > messages and then plymouth starts. Is this normal or should I get the > > usual GRUB menu with the count down allowing me to select kernels? > > Note: this laptop is only running F10 it's not a dual boot or anything > > strange. > > > > > This is expected behaviour press esc key while the black screen is displayed > and the grub menu gets displayed. Just hitting the space bar, maybe any key will get the grub menu when it first starts to boot before plymouth. > > Second, when plymouth starts my screen is black except for a progress > > bar, which is doesn't progress smoothly and changes a few colours with > > the words Fedora 9.92 in the lower right hand corner. However, the > > progress bar does eventual fill out though it still flickers with > > different colours. I have an intel 945 video chip. > > > > > Also expected. > KMS works only on ATI cards, Intel not far away but probably wont make > it in time for F10 > Nvidia some where in the distant future... I have an nvidia chipset, and I see the same thing the OP mentioned. So this isn't what is shown with ATI Cards/chipsets? If not, what do *they* see? Is there a screen shot out there somewhere of what *should* be shown? -- Mike Chambers Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc.. mikec302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
