Rather than providing a pretty animation to hide status and debugging information, plymouth gives me the ugliest 320x240 text-mode-only boot that I have ever seen.
My native resolution is 1680x1050. Grub2 appears in the correct resolution (after considerable hacking), GDM2 appears in the correct resolution (after installing proprietary drivers), Gnome appears in the correct resolution (out of the box), but every time I boot I get to see some hideous text which I'd rather read from a log file after boot anyway. I've tried a lot of "fixes". I've done nasty things to grub and initramfs that I hope I don't have to reverse because there's no documentation for that.... The most progress I've made was switching to a low-resolution, flickering, often crashing to text login, graphical plymouth to the ugly but slightly more functional text plymouth and I don't even know why or how I did that (it wasn't part of any of the "fixes" i've tried). I wasn't happy with xsplash either, but plymouth is making my hair fall out. I was able to hammer this out in Lucid, but in Maverick it seems hopeless. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625832 Title: [Maverick] plymouth falls to text mode even if graphic mode worked before -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
