(Solved) e17 slow boot up

[jb99]

I've installed e17 and really like it, works well on my old slow pc.  
Only one small problem, with the LXDE desktop my boot time is 24" but with e17 it's 45".  If I hit the esc key while booting e17 and lose the nice animation I'm back to the 24" boot time.   The same thing happens on shut down.   So is there a way to permanently disable the animation and have a text display during boot up and shut down ( which I prefer anyway).  I searched all the gadgets and modules but couldn't find any option,
thanks

[AS]

Hi jb99,

the "animation" should be the plymouth theme, which start immediately after grub.
You can disable plymouth editing the grub file: /boot/grub/menu.lst and substituting splash=silent with splash=verbose.
Optionally, if you want to see all text messages, delete the option quiet.

HTH, AS

[Linuxera]

Thanks for the reply as.  Another item is that speedboot will actually save more and more time each time you reboot.  It's building or checking to see which dkms have been loaded for that kernel.  You can optionally take out dkms packages that no longer suit your hardware.  Most ISOs come with a variety of video packages, and other items to meet the needs of most hardware. 

Another thing you might want to try is an older kernel, say 2.3.32.24.

Best of luck!

[jb99]

Thanks AS -  I substituted splash=silent with splash=verbose and I now have a fast boot/shutdown.
Thanks for info Linuxera - I wasn't aware of speedboot,  but after "duckduckgo"ing it, I found I have an "ok" in /var/lib/speedboot/status so it's working correctly.