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 Monday, October 11, 2010

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