GRUB2 theme slow F17 RC2

hadrons123 · #1 21st May 2012, 05:57 AM

I activated default theme in Grub2. I got a colorful grub screen with a theme, but trying to scroll down for OS choices the scrolling action is very slow.

Any one else having the same problem?
my /etc/default/grub

Code:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0   KEYTABLE=us rd.luks.uuid=luks-1fbf87fd-ddfb-466a-8e6a-5ee613e65b61 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 quiet pci=nomsi noapic irqpoll"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
#GRUB_BACKGROUND=/boot/seneca_lake.jpg

***glennzo*** · #2 21st May 2012, 07:10 AM

I've seen the same behavior with grub themes on my computer. I believe its a know issue. If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure I saw something about it while browsing redhat bugzilla for another grub related issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822123
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279709

hadrons123 · #3 21st May 2012, 07:21 AM

But I wonder how arch can do this thing right while fedora has bugs in it.

lately all the issues I face with gnome and grub2 in fedora are just non-existent in Arch.

#4 21st May 2012, 07:56 AM

The bug listed has been fixed, just comment the line out and run grub2-mkconfig.
F17 will have no themed grub

Code:

#GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"

hadrons123 · #5 21st May 2012, 08:11 AM

@yellowman.I already tried that and I have a wallpaper for grub rather than a theme. I was hoping to have the theme working normally!

#6 21st May 2012, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hadrons123

@yellowman.I already tried that and I have a wallpaper for grub rather than a theme. I was hoping to have the theme working normally!

Anaconda upstream have disabled the theme for now.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=a...4c982d8610c3ed

Dutchy · #7 21st May 2012, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hadrons123

But I wonder how arch can do this thing right while fedora has bugs in it.

lately all the issues I face with gnome and grub2 in fedora are just non-existent in Arch.

Maybe a different version of grub2 or a theme setting that causes a lot of processing?
In my Virtualbox the theme works fluently.

hostace · #8 21st May 2012, 01:12 PM

On my netbook Acer AOD 260 theme working correctly. I think, It's some related with video modules from grub2

hadrons123 · #9 21st May 2012, 05:57 PM

@hostace maybe its the video module.

But what glennzo has answered seems pretty apt.

**AdamW** · #10 21st May 2012, 10:12 PM

does arch actually use a theme, or just a background?

hadrons123 · #11 22nd May 2012, 01:58 AM

Arch has the default grub 2 theme but you got to enable it.