No Splash Icon on Boot - Mint 20.2 Cinnamon

[MintMan20204]

I recently installed Mint 20.2 Cinnamon and after installing it I do not get an initial spinning splash screen logo on boot up. It only shows on shut down. I don't recall what kernel upgrade did this but there was a kernel change and install toward the end of the install that was forced by the OS that I think took over and stopped it from showing. Is there any way to get the splash icon to show on power up regardless of what Kernel I am on?

[SMG]

I recently installed Mint 20.2 Cinnamon and after installing it I do not get an initial spinning splash screen logo on boot up. It only shows on shut down. I don't recall what kernel upgrade did this but there was a kernel change and install toward the end of the install that was forced by the OS that I think took over and stopped it from showing. Is there any way to get the splash icon to show on power up regardless of what Kernel I am on?

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[MintMan20204]

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user@systemname:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.13.0-22-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F11 date: 10/15/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700K bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: D L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 57600 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:67df 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.41.0 
  5.13.0-22-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aaf0 
  Device-3: Microdia type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 1-13.1:9 chip ID: 0c45:6536 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-22-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370 
  IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel 
  port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15bc 
  IF: eno2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 730.13 GiB (31.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: PCIe SSD size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: ECFM22.7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 467.96 GiB used: 101.01 GiB (21.6%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 27 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 890 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
  1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cappelikan-ppa-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cappelikan/ppa/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-papirus-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Info:
  Processes: 340 Uptime: 1d 1h 49m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 3.03 GiB (19.5%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
user@systemname:~$ 

[SMG]

Some people with Nvidia GPUs have this issue, but you do not.

We will have to see if someone else might have ideas why it is not showing during boot up.

[MintMan20204]

Taking "quiet splash" out of the GRUB for troubleshooting revealed the error for me on this:

VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting

I've seen others now on further research say that this text should resolve it when added to a line in GRUB but I am not sure what line or where: amdgpu.dc=0

[SMG]

Taking "quiet splash" out of the GRUB for troubleshooting revealed the error for me on this:

VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting

That message usually means you are either booting in Recovery Mode or you have the nomodeset kernel parameter in grub.

I've never seen that message relate to amdgpu.dc=0.

[MintMan20204]

I checked my grub file and didn't see nomodeset anywhere in it and didn't use recovery on boot at all just typical boot.

[SMG]

I checked my grub file and didn't see nomodeset anywhere in it and didn't use recovery on boot at all just typical boot.

And if you run inxi -Gx it shows your graphics drivers are installed properly (ie. amdgpu is installed and the renderer is Radeon RX 580 Series)?

If so, that does not correlate with the message you posted.

I went and researched the kernel parameter you posted and that only applied to much older kernel versions (early 4 series kernels). The settings in the kernel have changed since then.

[MintMan20204]

It was weird I tried to just go back to a 5.4 kernel to work on resolving a different issue I am having with the 5.13 kernel and now on 5.4 it periodically will show the logo on boot sometimes but wont other times.

Also, I got it to work 100% of the time by just adding "splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash" but I wonder why it requires this to show it.