Splash is wrong resolution

[melchizedek]

Okay, I've had a few problems getting my resolution right...problems that I'm happy to say are now behind me (hopefully). I'm kind of tidying up a little after the big work, and I know this may sound a little trivial, but the splash screen that kicks in after choosing Linux MINT, but before the log-in splash......it's the wrong size. It's still showing as if my resolution were 640x480, and to be honest, it looks a bit feeble......Linux Mint in big letters and such.

So my question is, is it possible to change this splash to one better suited to my resolution?

[Lim-Dul]

Yeah - I had that problem as well. I tried many solutions but in the end "startupmanager", a GUI tool, did the trick for me. Set your splash screen to use 1024x768 and you'll be fine.

Get startupmanager from the repos through MintInstall (for example) and you might need to run it as root if it doesn't prompt you to do it.

[melchizedek]

Yeah - I had that problem as well. I tried many solutions but in the end "startupmanager", a GUI tool, did the trick for me. Set your splash screen to use 1024x768 and you'll be fine.

Get startupmanager from the repos through MintInstall (for example) and you might need to run it as root if it doesn't prompt you to do it.

Thanks for the tip. It's been a partial success. I installed StartUp-Manager, but when I changed the resolution from 800x600 to 1280x1024, the splash looked too small to fill the screen. There was a big black border all the way around it. Anyway, I've masked the problem somewhat by using the black theme.....so the black border blends in with the splash theme, and you can't see that it's too small. It's a workable fix for now. Unless you or anyone else know how to get the existing splash to fill out the full screen???

Thanks again

[Lim-Dul]

Hmm - I did some additional things, too, so maybe the combination of all of them did the trick. I'll let you know when I wake up and boot to Mint again. ^^

[melchizedek]

Hmm - I did some additional things, too, so maybe the combination of all of them did the trick. I'll let you know when I wake up and boot to Mint again. ^^

Will look forwards to it....thanks.

[deadguy]

or, you can change your usplash.conf file.

open a terminal and type:

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gksudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf

change the resolution to 1024x768
like this:

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# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

xres=1024
yres=768

save the file then,back to the terminal:

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sudo update-initramfs -u

[melchizedek]

or, you can change your usplash.conf file.

open a terminal and type:

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gksudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf

change the resolution to 1024x768
like this:

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# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

xres=1024
yres=768

save the file then,back to the terminal:

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sudo update-initramfs -u

Hmmmm...I tried this but the xres/yres values are as they should be (1280x1024). Yet the splash is still small in the centre of the screen with a thick black border around it.

[Lim-Dul]

Yeah - in my case that didn't help either but leave it as it is because that might be a contributing factor to the final solution. The last thing I'd recommend doing is doing a sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and adding the vga=XXX parameter to the Mint boot entry.

Here's a table what XXX should be for some popular resolution/color depth combos:

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Color depth      | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
-----------------+-------------------------------------
256        (8bit)|  769      771       773      775
32000     (15bit)|  784      787       790      793
65000     (16bit)|  785      788       791      794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|  786      789       792      795

I added vga=795 because I run 1280x1024 (the same as you, I believe?). Once you have done that you can further mess around with the startupmanager - maybe another resolution option will make usplash display correctly?

[melchizedek]

Yeah - in my case that didn't help either but leave it as it is because that might be a contributing factor to the final solution. The last thing I'd recommend doing is doing a sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and adding the vga=XXX parameter to the Mint boot entry.

Here's a table what XXX should be for some popular resolution/color depth combos:

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Color depth      | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
-----------------+-------------------------------------
256        (8bit)|  769      771       773      775
32000     (15bit)|  784      787       790      793
65000     (16bit)|  785      788       791      794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|  786      789       792      795

I added vga=795 because I run 1280x1024 (the same as you, I believe?). Once you have done that you can further mess around with the startupmanager - maybe another resolution option will make usplash display correctly?

I was already running vga=795. Tried a bigger resolution and nothing shows up at all after an unsupported resolution type warning. Tried a smaller one, which actually fills the screen, but the logo is very large in the centre and it looks a bit ugly. So went back to the one that should fit, and back to thick black borders again. Oh well, to be honest, using the mint-black background is good enough. Although I know it's hiding a multitude of sins, it certainly doesn't look as if it is, and it's not effecting how my computer runs.....so I guess it'll do for now.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions though

[deadguy]

or, you can change your usplash.conf file.

open a terminal and type:

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gksudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf

change the resolution to 1024x768
like this:

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# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

xres=1024
yres=768

save the file then,back to the terminal:

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sudo update-initramfs -u

Hmmmm...I tried this but the xres/yres values are as they should be (1280x1024). Yet the splash is still small in the centre of the screen with a thick black border around it.

but did you try any other resolution such as 1024x768?
just curious.

[Gee]

Hi changing the resolution in the gksudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf did it for me in the logout splash but the loader on the beginning still does not have the correct resolution...
BTW i tried to install the strartup manager, but it does not launch.

[chuckiek]

Thanks
gksudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf

worked great!

[smokeymtn_ron]

Gee,
I had the same problem getting startup manager to launch. Try this:

Right click on the menu icon and select "Edit Menu" from the popup menu. Go to "Administration" (you may have to scroll down) in Menus. Click on "Administration and a list of applications will come up in the right window. Click on startupmanager then click "Properties" The startupmanager launcher will appear. In the command box, change "su-to-root -X-c " to "gksu" without touching the rest ofthe start command. Close the menu editor and try launching startupmanager from mintMenu. It should work.

(Wish I could find the post where I got this so I can give the proper credit )

Ron