Fix Plymouth on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

In Ubuntu 11.04 after installing NVIDIA’s or ATI’s video card proprietary driver the graphical boot, managed by Plymouth, reverts to an ugly text-only version. I’ve use StartUp-Manager but not solve yet, but it better then before . I found simple solution from here. There’s a script to get the graphical boot back.

U can di this to using it :
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$ cd
$ wget http://www.webalice.it/bernardi82/software/fixplymouth-natty
$ chmod +x fixplymouth-natty
$ ./fixplymouth-natty

HINT: the script will ask you to select a video resolution. I think you’re better off with 1024×768-24, higher resolutions might not work.

NOTE: The script that I’ve described on a previous post works only for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10. For the new Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) there’s an additional configuration to change, so I’ve modified the script in order to do that.

Here’s what happens under the hood: the script installs uvesafb and configures Grub and some parameters for the uvesafb kernel module; finally it rebuilds the initramfs image and updates Grub2. This updated version of the script also removes the vt.handoff=7 parameter from Grub’s configuration, here’s an explanation of what it is.

After you reboot it must be fix.

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