Once upon a time when I booted my linux box I watched a load of text flow past, got a login, logged in, ran startx and it all worked, quickly!
Now when I boot my linux box (well, any one of several actually) I see *nothing* between the BIOS screen and the pretty (?) lubuntu/xubuntu screen asking me to log in. Increasingly I'm seeing *long* delays on the way as Network Manager and Plymouth between them waste my time waiting for networks to configure themselves (or not). On my laptop in particular it's getting steadily worse as I alternate regularly between wired and WiFi network connections and the system really doesn't cope with this well. I have tried to tell grub to tell me what's happenning as it goes but it appears incapable of working on any of my systems, I just get a blank screen during boot whatever I do. Can I remove all of the plymouth junk and as a result get a text only login sequence or is there more to it than that? I have already removed Network Manager and replaced it with wicd which has made some things work better. -- Chris Green -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
