Idea #5477: Use best usplash resolution

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Written by zaryk the 23 Mar 08 at 09:19. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

Usplash looks very ugly in Hardy (always with very low resolution). It would be nice if it could start always with the highest resolution available (getting the info from xorg, ex.)

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Attachments

Bug #188764 : probe screen resolution at boot

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Idea #8106: Use best usplash resolution (80 votes)

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Comments

folle wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 11:15

Maybe not the highest but the resolution that the user normally use.

steve196 wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 11:29

1) The splash is loaded before the file system is even mounted
2) Why introduce complexity at a stage when any failure means an unbootable system?

Alexander wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 15:20

If the harddrive from one computer, where X has been run with a high resolution, is moved over to another computer, that can not handle that resolution, the drive may be unbootable.

unimatrix9 wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 17:56

usplash should get an gui for setting up resulution, the method that we use at the moment is not for new users,
to get the right resolution we often have to do something like this : sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf
see the resolutions and fill in the ones you want ,

this is how it looks

# Usplash configuration file
xres=1024
yres=768

then save the new file and run

sudo update-initramfs -u

wait untill its done ( takes a while ) then after that reboot

XVIIarcano wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 18:14

you are all right but in my case usplash in gutsy displayed pretty, while in hardy it is much worse, so it can be improved.
+1

dustigroove wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 01:31

While usplash may load before the file system is mounted, that doesn't preclude the resolution from being changed automatically after the initial login based upon the users resolution choice.

I'd find it acceptable to have a "link usplash resolution to screen resolution" preference somewhere.

kraemer wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 01:45

The current Usplash resolution in Hardy is one ugly mofo. +1

saivann (Moderator) wrote on the 7 May 08 at 19:09

Hardy Final Release automatically install best values in /etc/usplash.conf when installed through the LiveCD, however, since Xorg use xrandr 1.3 and does not use static debconf values like it did in the past, it's now very tricky and the best solution for usplash would be to automatically detect (probe) good resolution at each boot, without using a static configuration file. This would also fix problems when changing hardware. This is actually a goal for the next ubuntu release.

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