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plymouth package

Plymouth theme broken pixels

Asked by frozenflames on 2010-05-30

so installed few new Plymouth themes using synaptic manager and i use the following commands change the theme

$ sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
[sudo] password for msi:
There are 5 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).

  Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntustudio-logo/ubuntustudio-logo.plymouth 150 auto mode
  1 /lib/plymouth/themes/fade-in/fade-in.plymouth 10 manual mode
  2 /lib/plymouth/themes/glow/glow.plymouth 10 manual mode
  3 /lib/plymouth/themes/solar/solar.plymouth 10 manual mode
  4 /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth 100 manual mode
  5 /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntustudio-logo/ubuntustudio-logo.plymouth 150 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /lib/plymouth/themes/fade-in/fade-in.plymouth to provide /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth (default.plymouth) in manual mode.
msi@msi-desktop:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic

but when i rebooted my system and plymouth theme starts with black screen and broken pixels every where scatered

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu plymouth Edit question

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Solved by:: frozenflames

Solved:: 2010-05-30

Last query:: 2010-05-30

Last reply:: 2010-05-30

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said on 2010-05-30:

Please tell your video card brand and model...

Please send here the result of

lspci

terminal command...

Thank you

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frozenflames (oracleandoracle) said on 2010-05-30:

GeForce 9500 GT

~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB361 AHCI/IDE (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB361 AHCI/IDE (rev 02)
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)