No splash screen in Ubuntu 10.10

[Deepak Jindal]

Hello gurus,
i have ubuntu 10.10, its an clean installation, and it was running fine. all things were good except that i didn't liked the splash screen, so i decided to make it better. and i found an script for that, without thinking twice i runit on my system and BAMM!!. default splash screen is gone, now everytime i boot, i see text bootup process(also in ugly low resolution).

url: http://d0rkye.zsenialis.com/?p=167

1. My question is how can i restore the default splash screen in ubuntu 10.10
2. if its not possible to retrieve the splash screen back, how can i increase the resolution of those text login process.. ??

[Deepak Jindal]

No answer yet!!...

[tristan]

The plymouth splash system is pretty annoying and difficult to get working well.

I'd suggest installing and running startupmanager

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

This will allow you to set the resolution, and whether you can see the splash and any text. Depending on how badly your previous script broke things, you might be able to get something back.

[Deepak Jindal]

The plymouth splash system is pretty annoying and difficult to get working well.

I'd suggest installing and running startupmanager

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

This will allow you to set the resolution, and whether you can see the splash and any text. Depending on how badly your previous script broke things, you might be able to get something back.

hi, after installing startup-manager this is what i got...!!

linux@Linux:~$ startupmanager
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
ult
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda4
done
Grub2 detected
Usplash not detected
Splashy not detected
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/startupmanager", line 54, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/startupmanager", line 51, in main
SumGui()
File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 193, in __init__
self.setup_widgets()
File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 202, in setup_widgets
self.set_shared_grub_widgets()
File "/usr/share/startupmanager/gtk_frontend.py", line 223, in set_shared_grub_widgets
self.timeout_spinner.set_value(self.grub.get_timeo ut())
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/bootconfig/grub.py", line 91, in get_timeout
timeout = utils.extract_number(line)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/bootconfig/utils.py", line 64, in extract_number
match = number_filter.search(line)
TypeError: expected string or buffer
linux@Linux:~$

[maximus20895]

Looks like you have a "free" version of windows there...

[Deepak Jindal]

still not able to find anything on net which can helps me setting a new splash screen, i previously had problem in plymouth, + changing login screen in ubuntu.. looks like ubuntu developers will do anything to make the bootup process faster, even if they had to limit the customization functionality in ubuntu. i personally happy if my ubuntu takes 5 more seconds and give me a good looking bootscreen as i intented..

[Jechem]

try this in terminal:

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

sudo update-initramfs -u

read: http://jechem.blogspot.com/2010/10/h...in-ubuntu.html

[Deepak Jindal]

try this in terminal:

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

sudo update-initramfs -u

read: http://jechem.blogspot.com/2010/10/h...in-ubuntu.html

yes, had tried this alredy, and again after you suggested but didnt worked. if you read my output above, it tells no usplash found. and this post if for CHANGING usplash screen.. i guess it was clear it wont work..!!

[Jechem]

10.10 is using plymouth now for its splash screen. try checking at if the file plymouth is present at /lib/plymouth. if not maybe I can send you the files

[Jechem]

I have attached a zip file. unzip and extract the attached file

type sudo nautilus in terminal then copy and paste plymouth folder into /lib/

type in terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

choose ubuntu-logo.plymouth

sudo update-initramfs -u

reboot
you should have a splash screen