Ubuntu – Fix Plymouth with Nvidia driver in Ubuntu 13.10

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Using the Nvidia driver, how can Plymouth be fixed in Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)?

In other versions there was a script that fixed it, but it is not working in Ubuntu 13.10 and package hwinfo is missing, but with free drivers it is not the case.

Best Answer

Workaround in few steps:

  1. Backup your sources.list: sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
  2. Just add previous release repo (located here) to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run sudo apt-get update
  3. Download and run this script
  4. Put your sources.list back: sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list_backup /etc/apt/sources.list and execute sudo apt-get update

After, you can download and change some plymouth themes:

sudo apt-get install plymouth-theme-solar
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u
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