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