October 2010 Archives

Fix plymouth boot splash on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

To get rid of the ugly plymouth boot splash screen after installing ATI or NVIDIA drivers do the following:

1. Install v86d package (sudo apt-get install v86d)
2. Edit the grub config file (/etc/default/grub)
   • replace GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x800-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap" or whatever resolution you want to use.
   • replace #GRUB_GFXMODE=640×480 into GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800 (or whatever resolution you used in the previous change).
3. Edit the initramfs config file (/etc/initramfs-tools/modules)
   • add the following line to the the config file uvesafb mode_option=1280x1024-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap
4. Enable framebuffer support
   • add FRAMEBUFFER=y to /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash (echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash)
5. Update grub and initramfs
   • sudo update-grub2 && sudo update-initramfs -u
6. Reboot

Posted by Johan Bakker on Oct 11, 2010