Comment 63 for bug 1043518

This bug splits off the problem described in comments #12 through #20 of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848305 . After plymouth was updated to 0.8.7 - partly to fix that bug - a serious issue showed up with several NVIDIA adapters: when booting normally to a desktop, runlevel '5', plymouth enabled, all as normal, either the DM doesn't really appear at all (though it claims to be running), or it appears but somewhat corrupted; if you can get through the DM to the desktop, it will also be corrupted.

Booting to runlevel 3 and starting the DM service manually, or dropping 'rhgb' from the kernel parameters, acts as a workaround.

airlied says he has found the fix for this: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1455231/ . He plans to run it by Ben and then submit it upstream.