How do I restore to default Plymouth / Splash settings?

[Shakz]

Dont be afraid of the command line solution. Make sure you set to to match your desktop resolution. For my latptop its 1280X800.

Command line :

gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

and add the line in BOLD.

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1680x1050

The resolution chosen should be your monitors native resolution.
Save the file and run

sudo update-grub



Reboot...should be golden.

[crjackson]

Dont be afraid of the command line solution. Make sure you set to to match your desktop resolution. For my latptop its 1280X800.

Command line :

gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

and add the line in BOLD.

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1680x1050

The resolution chosen should be your monitors native resolution.
Save the file and run

sudo update-grub



Reboot...should be golden.

Shakz,

I'm anything but afraid of the command line. When I said I did the graphical solution, I was referring to th LINK in the previous post that was labeled graphical solution.

I actually did do everything by the command line, and it's all good now except, that the boot up freq. for that screen isn't configured properly on my CRT monitor. If I could freeze the bootup process when the purple UBUNTU logo with the animation is on screen, I could adjust my monitor and make it PERFECT.

I'm done tweaking the OS boot process. It's golden. I need to tweak my monitor now.

Do you know how to freeze the boot process without getting dumped to a text output?

[isbiyanto]

Try the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth && sudo update-initramfs -u

worked for me, thanks

[undoIT]

gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

and add the line in BOLD.

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x800

The resolution chosen should be your monitors native resolution.
Save the file and run

sudo update-grub

Reboot...should be golden.

Finally!!! No more big ugly 16 color 1995 boot splash! Thank you. Now I can boot my Macbook without feeling embarrassed for Ubuntu when people are looking over my shoulder

(except for the low graphics mode bug that pops up randomly because of the crappy Nvidia proprietary driver). One bug at a time...

[crjackson]

(except for the low graphics mode bug that pops up randomly because of the crappy Nvidia proprietary driver). One bug at a time...

What driver version do you have?

[undoIT]

What driver version do you have?

I think I may have solved that as well today. I was using nvidia-current (19x series). Just for the hell of it, and because I was totally fed up with this bug, I decided to try the 173 driver.

Wow! Not only is the low graphics mode bug gone, I'm also not getting the freezes anymore when the graphics card is running above 61 degrees celsius. Karmic, Lucid and even OS X where plagued with freezes and I was sure that it was a hardware issue. I'm not so sure anymore.

I got the graphics card up to 84 degrees celsius for around 15 minutes earlier today, no crashes. And, I've been running glxgears with a youtube video for over 30 minutes now, GPU at 75 degrees and CPUs much hotter than normal, still no crashes. I need to do more testing, but I am beginning to think that the newer Nvidia drivers (for both Linux and OS X) are total crap, at least for the 9400m card.

[crjackson]

I think I may have solved that as well today. I was using nvidia-current (19x series). Just for the hell of it, and because I was totally fed up with this bug, I decided to try the 173 driver.

Wow! Not only is the low graphics mode bug gone, I'm also not getting the freezes anymore when the graphics card is running above 61 degrees celsius. Karmic, Lucid and even OS X where plagued with freezes and I was sure that it was a hardware issue. I'm not so sure anymore.

I got the graphics card up to 84 degrees celsius for around 15 minutes earlier today, no crashes. And, I've been running glxgears with a youtube video for over 30 minutes now, GPU at 75 degrees and CPUs much hotter than normal, still no crashes. I need to do more testing, but I am beginning to think that the newer Nvidia drivers (for both Linux and OS X) are total crap, at least for the 9400m card.

Glad you got it worked out. I wouldn't say the newer drivers are total crap though. They are working great for many people (myself included). I have no issues with heat or locking up.

[undoIT]

Glad you got it worked out. I wouldn't say the newer drivers are total crap though. They are working great for many people (myself included). I have no issues with heat or locking up.

I guess I'm biased, because I've had nothing but issues with Nvidia cards. The newer drivers (18x series and 19x series) seem to cause freezes with the 9400m card in my Macbook 5.1, not to mention the low graphics mode bug which makes the Macbook almost unusable in Lucid.

And, with the Dell Latitude E6400 I've owned for the past year+ with Nvidia 160m, I have never been able to run compiz in either Kubuntu Jaunty or Karmic, because after maybe an hour or so with compiz enabled, X will freak out with all of this garbage on the screen, the computer becomes unresponsive and I have to hold down the power button to do a cold reboot.

I have purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad T410s to replace the E6400 and it is running perfectly fine with Intel integrated card. I have never had any issues with any of the laptops I have owned that use Intel cards.

I think it is much more likely that these Nvidia driver issues would've been fixed by now if Nvidia provided open source versions. Nvidia seems to have no interest at all in supporting an open source version of their drivers. After reading this:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...kills_nv&num=1

I decided that I will not be purchasing any laptops with Nvidia cards in the future.

[brendanpiater]

Try the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth && sudo update-initramfs -u

Worked for me, thank you.