On 31 March 2014 17:11, Barry Titterton <titterton.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently converted a desk top machine from XP to Unbuntu but have a > small problem with the graphics during start up. > > The machine has a legacy Nvidia graphics card (6800LE). I installed Ubuntu > 13.10 as the only OS on the machine. The installer used the Nouveau graphics > driver as the default for the Nvidia card but it gave problems so I used > Software & Updates > Additional Drivers to change to the propriety > nvidia-304-updates driver. > > The problem is when I start the machine, after the BIOS text screen, the > screen now goes black with only the following two lines of text on the > screen:- > > Ubuntu 13.10 <name> tty1 > <name> login: > > (Where <name> is the ID of the machine) > > I then wait for approx 30 seconds, without touching the keyboard, and the > machine will eventually go to the normal log-in screen. I can then log-in to > Unity as normal, and everything works fine. > > So you will see that this pause at the tty1 screen is more of an annoyance > than a problem. It also gives a poor impression to people that I am trying > to convert to Ubuntu. I have tried Google but all of the issues that I have > found refer to a total loss of display rather that this temporary pause > during boot. Can anyone suggest a way of stopping this pause?
You could try bootchart [1] which may show you where the delay is. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
