Knoppc 4.0 K'ed my breezy boot splash--how to revert?

[Larry Grover]

Brian van den Broek wrote:
> Hi all,
> u
> Brand new to ubuntu and linux. I installed ubuntu breezy, but also put on
> kbunutu desktop, so I could see what I liked best brtween KDE/Gnome. 

When you installed the kubuntu-desktop package, it brought in the 
kubuntu-artwork-usplash package, which contains the kbunutu themed boot 
splash.

> Everytime I booted up, I got the ubuntu boot splash, as expected. Today, trying
> to tace down a hardware problem, I booted up with Knoppix 4.0. Now my boot
> splash is the kubuntu one. That seems rude :-) 

Well, this has nothing to do with Knoppix -- by coincidence the first 
time you rebooted after the new (kubuntu) boot splash was installed and 
configured (automatically) you just happened to reboot into knoppix.  If 
you had simply rebooted into K/Ubuntu, you would have seen the same thing.

> This linux newbie has no idea how to fix that. What would I need to look into?


I've never done this, but there is a page in the wiki which describes 
the process of creating and configuring a custom boot splash:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USplashCustomizationHowto?highlight=%28usplash%29

Based on the information here, I think what you need to do is:

(1) Open some type of terminal (gnome-terminal, konsole, etc)

(2) From the command line, run this command:

	sudo update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so

Enter your password at the prompt, then you should see output something 
like this:



There are 3 alternatives which provide `usplash-artwork.so'.

   Selection    Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
       1        /usr/lib/usplash/usplash-default.so
*+    2        /usr/lib/usplash/xubuntu-splash.so
       3        /usr/lib/usplash/kubuntu-splash.so

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:



If you want the default Ubuntu-themed boot splash, select the number 
corresponding to usplash-default.so.  On my system, this would be number 
1 (I have three alternatives because I have installed kubuntu-desktop 
and xubuntu-desktop, in addition to the gnome ubuntu-desktop).

(3) Last, run this command:

	sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r)

I believe this command rebuilds the initial ramfs used by the kernel 
when it boots, and which contains the boot splash image.

This should fix things the way you want.

> And for those who are thinking "but Knoppix doesn't change anything
> permanently", I understand the scepticism. All I can tell you is after 30+ boots
> with the ubuntu artwork, one knoppix boot just long enough to run acpi -V later,
> and the art has changed.

Well, I still think Knoppix doesn't change anything permenantly (unless 
you explicitly tell it to).  However, your Ubuntu system does sometimes 
change things without telling you -- like the boot splash image when you 
install a new *ubuntu-desktop.  I guess it would be a little friendlier 
if the system asked you to select a preferred boot splash when you 
install a second (or third) *ubuntu-desktop package, but it doesn't.

Regards,
Larry