Restoring legacy components

[Goh Lip]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:45:15 +0800, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question, but hey...

Heh heh heh....:)
Liam, I don't have issues with HAL or its replacement and I don't use 9.04  
(too much problems with KDE4.0) so I'll skip that and let others reply,  
but I'll comment on the splash....


> Is it possible to manually re-install components that Ubuntu has
> abandoned and moved away from?
>
> E.g., the old splash screen. I don't like Plymouth. On my machines
> where it works, there is a long, pregnant pause before it kicks in,
> followed by a very short splash screen with 4 dots that tell you
> nothing about how far bootup has progressed. I'd like the old one
> back, with an actual useful, informative progress bar.

There is no need to do re-install or modify any component; just remove the  
"splash" on the linux line of the grub menu entry and that's it. Also note  
some people want to see the progress/systems loading and for that, you can  
also remove the "quiet" too.

Regards - Goh Lip


I used to have an open mind,
but my brains kept falling out.