Plymouth is meant to provide a nice-looking full-resolution boot screen on all DRM-capable graphics cards thus avoiding archaic text screen or lame WindowsXP-like low resolution logo. And it works fine until user decides to install a proprietary driver which does not like some other driver to be loaded before it. The behaviour cannot be changed because the driver is proprietary (try forcing Nvidia and ATI to amend this). That's why making a neater bootscreen experience requires the new opensource graphics drivers - 'nouveau' for Nvidia and 'radeon' for ATI. Both are still incomplete but work, try them. Compiz team even recommends nouveau over proprietary drivers.
So I don't really understand what the fuss is about. Use open drivers - a default choice for most users - or if you really have to stay with proprietary, a simple tweak using VESA mode (explained earlier in this thread) can get you a nice bootscreen again. By the way, it is easy to moan, but it is harder to get your own hands dirty. This is free software! You don't pay for it! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563878 Title: Ubuntu splashscreen big and ugly after installing ATI/nVidia proprietary graphics driver -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
