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usplash package

usplash default resolution is invalid

Bug #182228 reported by Greg Toombs on 2008-01-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #150930: Black screen, and bad usplash.conf after installation. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	usplash (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: usplash

The default /etc/usplash.conf contained the following code.

<code>
# Usplash configuration file
xres=1280
yres=1024
</code>

This isn't good, because my video card definitely doesn't have that mode. This mode should not have been selected. 1280x800 should have been probed instead.

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Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny) wrote on 2008-01-18:

It doesn't work with me either, I installed ubuntu 7.10 on several PC's, usplash works OK with the livecd, but after install I get a blank screen at boot, when I commented out the enteries in /etc/usplash.conf I got a usplash at shutdown but not at boot. It looks like most monitors that we have here doesn't support that mode, it only worked with one monitor (the same PC doesn't show usplash with others). I don't see what is the point of having such very high resolution by default.

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Greg Toombs (greg-toombs) wrote on 2008-01-18:

Even after fixing the resolution, the splash screen didn't work until I ran the StartupManager tool - a very nice tool. It can be installed from Synaptic.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote on 2008-02-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 150930, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.