Okay. This particular card ATI RC410 200m will not run at 1280x1024 in Linux until the operating system is up. (an old bug only repairable through the BIOS for which there are no longer any updates available) The card runs fast and well in 64 bit once the system is running but I have only been able to get real grub vbe to run at 640x480 and the system will not display graphics at any other resolution until it is running. The support for this card in that sense has always been incomplete. The simplest solution which I have yet to decipher is to modify the liteboot display to 640x480 or install an old black screen plymouth theme with a loading bar or box display but because plymouth is modified in LL I cannot use some commands that I am familiar with. I'm going to work on that now. Will post later with code I use to solve if I can. Sorry for the delay. Service call interruption.
Okay. Tested gfxmode 640x480 in grub and indeed on another LL 3.4 system the Deb 8 grub menu splash is default. Also tested removing plymouth-themes package. No effect whatsoever on the system. Still working.
Update: There are several issues at play here. Grub version Deb 8, relocation of directory for theme files in Ubuntu themes will not work without root activated directory change, firmware muddies the process with this card (so do not install) cannot mode set anyway on this card conventionally, vga is deprecated, initramfs-tools is not complete in Ubuntu, splash will show clearer adding FRAMEBUFFER=y but is not worth doing because still has graphical display error, simply cannot set gfx resolution other than 640x480 even though real grub vbe lists other options, have begun working on alternate fallback liteboot splash 640x480. If it works should consider adding it, there are other old cards running gallium drivers that have the same issue. also* (to find the Deb 8 grub menu splash comment out linux_lite_background,png in /etc/default/grub and then uncomment GFXMode 640x480)
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Okay. Tested gfxmode 640x480 in grub and indeed on another LL 3.4 system the Deb 8 grub menu splash is default. Also tested removing plymouth-themes package. No effect whatsoever on the system. Still working.
Update: There are several issues at play here. Grub version Deb 8, relocation of directory for theme files in Ubuntu themes will not work without root activated directory change, firmware muddies the process with this card (so do not install) cannot mode set anyway on this card conventionally, vga is deprecated, initramfs-tools is not complete in Ubuntu, splash will show clearer adding FRAMEBUFFER=y but is not worth doing because still has graphical display error, simply cannot set gfx resolution other than 640x480 even though real grub vbe lists other options, have begun working on alternate fallback liteboot splash 640x480. If it works should consider adding it, there are other old cards running gallium drivers that have the same issue. also* (to find the Deb 8 grub menu splash comment out linux_lite_background,png in /etc/default/grub and then uncomment GFXMode 640x480)
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