ugly plymouth animation during booting with nvidia driver

[Le Gluon Du Net]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Hello,

the plymouth ubuntu animation during booting is very ugly with nvidia driver, could you make it better please?

Thanks for your help.

LGDN

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 4 00:46:03 2011
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
MachineType: HP-Pavilion GX598AA-ABF a6221.fr
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic root=UUID=32fde935-d672-446f-8502-7cf931fc0385 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/text.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1:
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-24 (38 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/27/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 5.21
dmi.board.name: Leonite2
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 6.00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: 1111
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr5.21:bd07/27/2007:svnHP-Pavilion:pnGX598AA-ABFa6221.fr:pvr:rvnASUSTekComputerINC.:rnLeonite2:rvr6.00:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr1111:
dmi.product.name: GX598AA-ABF a6221.fr
dmi.sys.vendor: HP-Pavilion

[Le Gluon Du Net (legluondunet)]

I reinstalled a fresh natty and I have plymouth ubuntu logo during booting, but it's ugly, the resolution af the plymouth theme should be 640x480.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

For Ubuntu 11.10, plymouth will use the preferred native video resolution as reported by 'vbeinfo' in grub. If this resolution doesn't look good on your display, you can override it by configuring GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub.

[Le Gluon Du Net (legluondunet)]

I set GRUB_GFXMODE to the maximum resolution of my nvidia card, 1680x1050 in /etc/default/grub, then update-grub and it finally works. Plymouth animation is no more Ugly, thanks.

LGDN

[Le Gluon Du Net (legluondunet)]

This bug is still present in Ubuntu 14.04. It appears when you install NVIDIA proprietary drivers, even if they are installed from the official Ubuntu repositories. Ubuntu is used by a large population, today this bug is easy to resolve, why you just don't add this line to grub by default:

GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=auto

or at less add it to the NVIDIA drivers installatio nscript from the official Ubuntu repositories.

[Dennis Fehr (cy-raid)]

It's funny how after so long this bug still isn't fixed.