How To Get Plymouth Working With Proprietary Nvidia Drivers

Users that use Proprietary Nvidia Drivers have problems with low resolution and low colour Plymouth boot.

To fix this You need to change some stuff in Grub file.

• Step 1

You must edit the /etc/default/grub file.

Open a terminal and paste this:

$ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

On line #18, uncomment (uncomment = remove the “#” in front of the line “#GRUB_GFXMODE=640×480” and change the resolution to whatever you want (in my particular case, I changed it to 1680x1050). Here is how it should look:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1680x1050

• Step 2

edit the /etc/grub.d/00_header file.

$ sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/00_header

And find the following line: “gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}” (it’s line 103 on my computer) and under it, paste this:

set gfxpayload=keep

• Step 3

update Grub 2:

To update the GRUB, simply run the following command:

$ sudo update-grub

Once you complete the above steps, restart the computer and you should see the nice Plymouth screen.

Source: sucka.net and ubuntuforums.org