Plymouth low res boot screen.

[ancleessen4]

I have searched the forums on this problem and I am still not really clear on the fix for this or even if I should wait for final release.
I am running Lucid 64bit and have upgraded through the cycle from Karmic. I am using nvidia proprietary drivers. All the time that the Plymouth boot screen has been available it has been in low resolution. As we are now at beta 2 I am torn between searching a fix or waiting for the final release...

So, from what I have read I need the 'nouveau' driver to fix this issue.
1. How do I install this in place of my existing nvidia proprietary driver?
2. I am a little bit confused by the hardware drivers selection panel telling me that I have an nvidia driver installed but that it is not in use-I read that this might be a bug??

A clear step by step fix would make a busy guy very happy

[Kow]

Take a look at /etc/default/grub and change 'GRUB_GFXMODE'. For example, mine is 'GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768'. After saving the changes, run 'sudo update-grub'. Reboot and enjoy a nice plymouth and the proprietary nvidia driver. I don't give step-by-step fixes in development.

[x-shaney-x]

I posted a similar query yesterday.
I can't comment on 'nouveau' as I have never had any experience but I have found something that seems to be working for me with nvidia:

Edit /etc/grub.d/00_header
Then look for the line "set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}" (line 103 in my case).
Add a line right beneath it like this:
set gfxpayload=1280x1024 (with your desired resolution).

Though the strange thing is this will only allow me to use the dmicode resolution so the aspect ratio is slightly off for me.
My monitor res is 1680x1050 but in grub and plymouth it won't work with that or other resolutions with the same ratio.

I also found this page: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-t...th-nvidia.html
With those instructions, using gfxpayload=keep instead of the actual resolution, I found I was often left with a black screen without it reaching the desktop for some reason.

[ubername]

I have found

set gfxpayload=keep

works fine for me ( I don't have the probs x-shaney mentions above)

[ancleessen4]

@ubername @x-shaney-x @kow thanks for your input.
I will try this fix when I get back to my home machine...

[x-shaney-x]

works fine for me ( I don't have the probs x-shaney mentions above)

I have since seen that solution posted in a lot of places and it seems to work for other people.
It seems to be when my res switches from the boot res to my desktop res something goes wrong but not if I set the boot res for gfxpayload.
Wish I could get the same res for my desktop and for boot.

[nanog]

that solution breaks tty which could be bad if you get the wrong kind of testing breakage. there is a monumentally long thread+bug report. its being worked on and i'm sure it will be fixed by release.

[x-shaney-x]

I found this information in /usr/share/doc/plymouth/README.Debian:

High-color graphics on nVidia, ATI and other cards
--------------------------------------------------

Our default configuration uses low-color graphics on cards or drivers
for which "Kernel Mode Setting" (in-kernel graphics drivers) are not
available.

This is because the driver that permits high-color graphics tends to
cause issues with suspend and resume, and we opted to prefer that
working.

    For nVidia and ATI users, the default "nouveau" and "radeon"
    drivers are Kernel Mode Setting enabled, but do not always
    provide 3D capability at the current time.  By switching to
    using the restricted/non-free nvidia-glx or fglrx drivers,
    you will gain 3D capability at the loss of a high-color
    splash screen.

You can however chose to enable high-color (and resolution) console
if you find it doesn't affect suspend/resume for you, or you don't
use that feature.

There are various methods of doing this, the most robust is the
following four steps:

 Append video=vesafb to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in
   /etc/default/grub
 sudo update-grub

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

Tried it and it did nothing for me and looking at dmesg it wasn't using vesafb anyway.

[philinux]

Take a look at /etc/default/grub and change 'GRUB_GFXMODE'. For example, mine is 'GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768'. After saving the changes, run 'sudo update-grub'. Reboot and enjoy a nice plymouth and the proprietary nvidia driver. I don't give step-by-step fixes in development.

I'm getting a rather large ugly ubuntu logo. Basically it res is too low on my 22" lcd its ugly.

Change the res as above only changes the grub menu res for me.

nVidia 8600

[Nightstrike2009]

I am experiencing similar problem when ati opensource driver was in use the boot screen was high res. Since using the closedsource ati driver (from hardware wizard) I have a low res boot screen & hi-res desktop.