Trisquel 5.0 - Plymouth Acting Strange?
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Hey fellow Trisquel users, I might as well introduce myself since this is my first post. I'm Miga, and I started using Trisquel last year with version 4.1 and have stuck to entirely Free Software when using GNU/Linux since. Now with that out of the way, the reason as to why I created this topic:
I just updated to Trisquel 5.0 early this morning, customized it a bit, and installed the experimental Mesa DRI (libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental). I have to use this if I want to have 3D rendering on my nVidia card, as it's the only way without installing a proprietary driver/firmware onto my computer.
Anyway, as soon as I installed this, I noticed that the Plymouth boot screen is a completely broken, garbled-up mess. It's only that way when booting up, when shutting down, it appears fine. This problem didn't happen on 4.5 either.
It's not something that's really that important, but I like to have it since it looks nice, and I don't know if there's something I can attempt to see if I can fix it and make it display properly.
Thanks in advance.
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the drivers for your card are experimental after all, I'm afraid such stuff is to be expected.
It might be something on Ubuntu's side, check the ubuntu forum. If you are German speaking there is ubuntu users.
Some of the devs here should know if it's possible to revert to the old drivers from 4.5, that would be a workaround if anything else fails.
Alright, this problem has gotten worse. I just tried to run a few games (Kobo Deluxe, Torus Trooper and Gunroar) and they all have this problem with the screen flashing and rendering slower than usual. Pretty much anything that does any sort of rendering on the GPU, really, but not Compiz oddly. I sort of can't live like this...
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btw, torus tropper and gunroar are awesome, thanks for hinting me at it :D
Haha, I'm a huge fan of Kenta Cho games myself. They have such simple graphics, yet are so much fun.
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I don't know for sure, but maybe you are able to install old drivers from 4.5? Look into your /etc/apt.sources.list, does it have slaine backports in it? Try getting the drivers from there, maybe it will fix the issue. Otherwise it has to do with something else and you'll have to revert back to 4.5 and wait until it's all sorted out.
There is a radical and 100% working solution to all of the graphical issues. Buy yourself a motherboard that comes with the Intel X4500. It may or may not include buying new RAM and CPU + CPU cooler. That's what I did after suffering through awful support of AMD/ATI for two years, bought myself a mobo and new CPU, cooler and RAM. It may not be the perfect solution for games (the performance of the X4500 sucks ass in comparison to all integrated GPUs from nVidia or AMD), but it's totally stable and you never get any kind of issues with normal operation and compiz.
Well see, I have a motherboard that currently has a 4500HD onboard, however, for whatever reason, Trisquel (and other GNU/Linux distros) have a hard time picking up the resolution of my monitor and forces it to be 1024x768. I can't change it to be 1280x1024, my monitor's native resolution. That's why I started using my nVidia GPU with the Free drivers on Trisquel, it doesn't have this problem and worked fairly well.
I've also tried installing the older version of libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental from Slaine, but it has an unmet dependency (libdrm-nouveau1) that I can't install without it breaking libdrm-nouveau1a, which if I uninstall that, it basically uninstalls everything on my system.
I'd hate to go back to 4.5, besides games and Plymouth working, 5.0 is really amazing so far.
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this is really strange, I have the same kind of resolution and no problems so far. Maybe it's because you have the 4500HD card and I got the normal edition of the 4500.
4.5 Packages You could download the deb file (at the bottom) and try installing the old one that worked.
Ah, you missed my other post by a minute. I sort of explained that installing it won't work because it has an unmet dependency (libdrm-nouveau1), and if I install that, it tries to uninstall libdrm-nouveau1a, which then tries to uninstall...everything, basically.
Okay, so the problem I was having with the games seems to be related to Compiz somehow. When I do "metacity --replace" and run a game, it works perfectly. If I run it with Compiz, it runs completely broken.
You should install fusion-icon. It helps easy switching between metacity and compiz(and other window managers if you've installed them)
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