Upgraded to 10.04 no Plymouth animation??

**weblayoutstudio** · May 3rd, 2010

Hi,
I have the same problem wirh a nvidia card, I have to more splash screen now, I get a black screen unti lthe login screen.

How to fix this ???

**austin.lund** · May 4th, 2010

I have seemingly the same problem (i.e. blinking cursor). But I've noted that when a routine fsck is done, the animation does appear (when fsck is started).

**austin.lund** · May 4th, 2010

I've got a plymouth debug output from /var/log/plymouth-debug.log using the plymouth:debug boot argument (attached).

Seems it doesn't want to load the renderer, but gives no clues that are obvious to me as to why not.

**Jimtuv** · May 6th, 2010

Yeah I have been searching everywhere for an answer. The best I have heard is it is a problem with plymouth and video drivers mainly Nvidia.

**alh** · May 6th, 2010

Originally Posted by Jimtuv

Yeah I have been searching everywhere for an answer. The best I have heard is it is a problem with plymouth and video drivers mainly Nvidia.

Try this line here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1469475

**Jimtuv** · May 8th, 2010

It turns out I had a number of problems acting together to cause this. Here is what I did.

First I realized that my grub was not current. I had the old grub not the new grub2 so that was the first thing I fixed following the procedures on this thread:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

Next my Nvidia driver was not current so I followed the advice on this thread.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-inst...ucid-lynx.html

Then I fixed the animation and low resolution from advice from this thread

http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2010...ricted-driver/

I hope this helps someone. It's not perfect (no acceleration while boot-up but it at least looks ok without making something else nonfunctional.

**topsykretts** · May 9th, 2010

looking through the link that "alh" posted, i found this link and it worked for me:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...4-140810.shtml

hope this helps.