Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

[garethd]

It's a new iteration of the old ugly boot up issue with NVidia. Only the grub cfgs have changed so the fix is no longer obvious.

Does anyone know of a fix?

Cheers,

[dibl]

Re: Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

That would be #2.d. on the Top 20 FAQs -- link in my signature.

[garethd]

Re: Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

Thanks dibl. I went through it, and it's not worked properly, I now have blank blue until the login prompt.

[dibl]

Re: Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

As I am running 11.04 on a VM, and not real hardware, I don't have a proprietary video driver installed, so I cannot reproduce the issue. But the last time I installed Kubuntu on hardware with a proprietary driver (10.10), I followed the Idyllic Tux's procedure very carefully and completely, and subsequently got the desired result of a clean plymouth splash, then the KDM greeter with default theme.

As an alternative, you could try following Rog131's guide to make a low-res splash for plymouth: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...6258#msg226258

[7penselen]

Re: Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

Nvidia is always ugly with booting (as long it doesn't harm the working it doesn't really care), but I found the booting at Natty extreme ugly with the strange white characters and even it makes my terminals under [alt][shift] / [F1]..[F6] and my rescue option unusable.

This is able to fix to install kde-config-grub2 and set in system settings > start-up and shutdown > Grub bootloader > Appearance > Linux Kernel > Boot in textmode.

This will make the bootscreens of Natty from extreme ugly to normal Ugly like in 10.10 Don't use this fix if bootscreens are like 10.10.

[alesandro]

Re: Natty NVidia Grub = Ugly Plymouth

HI

I set a boot option like "vga=789" to my Nvidia grafic card (you can use any screen suported resolution by your system) and by the first time the plymouth screen is very nice. The CLI login and rescue mode is very nice too.

Look for the words "quiet splash" in "/etc/default/grub" file. Place "vga=789" after it or any resolution of your choice (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BI...o_mode_numbers). Make a backup of the original file and run in terminal:

sudo update-grub

This link (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bo...Boot%20Options), although outdated, is very helpfull.