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Plymouth not working on boot

Asked by Steven Sauls

I get a black screen and an ubuntu logo for about 1/2 a second. That logo is in 640x480. \
I get a 640x480 logo on shutdown also.
Below is output from lshw -C display

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: C51 [Geforce Go 6150]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:b2000000-b2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) memory:b1000000-b1ffffff memory:80000000-8001ffff(prefetchable)

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Richard Garvin (garvinrick4) said : 		#1

This is the link for that fix. It is in #2 by Scott James Remnant.
I have found no problem with reduced boot speed.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/540801

Scott James Remnant wrote on 2010-03-18: Re: X server starts before Plymouth #2

The problem here is the graphics drivers; on your system they're taking longer to load than it takes to check and mount the filesystem - so there's no reason to start the splash screen, since we can already start X.

On HDD-based systems this is worse because we do the ureadahead phase before loading drivers; thus it can take a long time for a splash to appear.

One "solution" is to use the initramfs and start plymouth as a critical step:

  echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
  update-initramfs -u

But that introduces a significant delay into boot just to get the splash screen up for the rest of it.

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Richard Garvin (garvinrick4) said : 		#2

Must be in root when adding solution.

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Richard Garvin (garvinrick4) said : 		#3

As for 640x480 can be changed in GUI package startupmanager.

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