On 01/29/2013 07:27 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi,
I have activated the usage of the Starfield theme for grub2 in
Fedora 17 and I am having issues with it.
1). Scrolling through the list of entries in the menu at boot time
is horribly slow. Every time I scroll with the arrow keys the screen
flashes black and it takes several seconds for the next/previous entry
to be highlighted.
2). I have just upgraded from from an Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT to an
Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 (this is a PCI-E 3 card plugged into a PCI-E 2
slot) and now I can see the graphics for the theme being drawn on the
screen as I watch, whereas with the 9800 the screen draw was
instantaneous. The issue highlighted in point 1) occurs independently
of the graphics card in terms of the same thing happens with both
graphics cards.
3). When I do an upgrade that upgrades the kernel the upgrade
process tries to update the grub2 config and mbr but is unable to
because /sbin/grubby fails with an access denied error even though I
am effectively running in root mode via sudo (implemented via the
wheel group). I have also tried this after switching to root mode via
su but that fails with the same error.
4). Because of the error highlighted in point 3, when upgrading
the kernel, I have to manual run a grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install to
update grub and this process rebuilds the Starfield's Theme.txt file
back to the defaults from the manual customization I have done from
white/grey bold text. The black/black bold text does not work for me
on the Starfield background.
Just a further note. I have now upgraded my monitor from a 17" 1280x1024
screen to a 20" 1600x900 widescreen monitor and since changing the
resolution in grub to 1600x900 the speed issues seem to have been
improved significantly, but the quality of the display was significantly
better with the 1280x1024 resolution.
regards,
Steve
My system is an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard, AMD FX 4 GHz
8
core cpu, Geforce GTX 650 2 GB graphics card, 16 GB memory, 256 GB SSD
(this has Win 8 and the boot partitions for Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.10
installed on it) and 2 2 TB Seagate hard disks, so from my perspective
computing power is not an issue.
What is the best way to rectify these issues?
regards,
Steve