Comments on: Fix low resolution grub and splash screen with Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.04

By: Hüseyin Yanardağ

Hüseyin Yanardağ — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:49:27 +0000

Thank you very much!!!!

By: Farid

Farid — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 19:30:30 +0000

Thank you! I set GRUB_GFXMODE to 1360x768x32 that was listed in vbeinfo, and then sudo update-grub2, and … it worked.

By: Alejandro Soumah

Alejandro Soumah — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:32:30 +0000

Each time I increase the resolution , the screen gets laggy really laggy. If I stay on low resolution it works okay.
How do I fix it ?

By: Osama Mahmoud

Osama Mahmoud — Mon, 06 May 2019 23:42:28 +0000

That worked !! thx alot.
done alot of research but this was really quick <3

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:56:48 +0000

This worked perfectly for me and I have Ubuntu 18.04 with a Viewsonic 27″ LCD monitor

By: Deepu Chandran

Deepu Chandran — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:28:16 +0000

Hey guys,
Can some one tell me how to fix this same problem in systems without nvedia… Mine has intel integrated graphics… I followed the above methods but didn’t got any results…
Please help…

By: XX

XX — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:26:38 +0000

It’s only FRAMEBUFFER=y, without ‘echo’.

By: EricWM

EricWM — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:32:22 +0000

I followed the steps above and the screen resolution change accordingly but I get the following message at the top of the grub menu screen.
Error (hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub/themes/background.png:3:1666 missing separator after property name ‘w’
The background.png is not displayed.
any help with this problem would be appreciated.
Thanks

By: Ahmed Sadman

Ahmed Sadman — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:48:00 +0000

GRUB screen fixed. But Splash screen isn’t. At the splash screen during opening the pc, the screen stays complete black printing only a string ‘FRAMEBUFFER=y’. Can you help?

By: Konstigt2

Konstigt2 — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:51:00 +0000

In reply to Fabien Auréjac. It worked anyway for me (only that I would see FRAMEBUFFER=y displayed while booting) so I guess the command isn't needed at all?!

By: Jecht_Sin

Jecht_Sin — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 08:19:00 +0000

Ok, I am running Ubuntu 14.04 in a Parallels Desktop VM for OS X. just adding the line:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1280×800

and updating grub2 worked for me for both grub and the splash screen. But the login windows still is at a lower resolution. I will eventually work that out, but this is simply a pain.

By: Pablo Chinchilla

Pablo Chinchilla — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 05:51:00 +0000

God bless you!
Thank you so much! I even asked at askubuntu.com and they didn’t bring me a solution.
Really easy and helpful.

By: Thuffir

Thuffir — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:59:00 +0000

Worth noting, that you will get the following warning from the NVIDIA driver:

NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.

So it seems that the higher resolution console is not working on purpose. (Or rather on poor support from NVIDIA…)

By: Benyamin Limanto

Benyamin Limanto — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 01:52:00 +0000

It only works for shutdown not for booting on or start splash. please help me :(

By: 景春亮

景春亮 — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:35:00 +0000

it does for me. ubuntu14.04 , nvidia-340.but thx anyway.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:35:00 +0000

Thank you very much, i searched the whole internet for this information

By: Fabien Auréjac

Fabien Auréjac — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:48:00 +0000

Thank you very much, really helpful

just a notice, here on chrome mac a field displays:

And fill it with the following line
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y

so the line to put in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash is only FRAMEBUFFER=y

By: AlexMR

AlexMR — Fri, 30 May 2014 18:08:00 +0000

Thanks a lot for your how-to, it works perfectly!