Comment 111 for bug 563878

"And it works fine until user decides to install a proprietary driver which does not like some other
driver to be loaded before it. The behaviour cannot be changed because
the driver is proprietary (try forcing Nvidia and ATI to amend this)."

So why is it working on Natty then? And why is one prompted right after a fresh install to install the proprietary drivers?

"That's why making a neater bootscreen experience requires the new
opensource graphics drivers - 'nouveau' for Nvidia and 'radeon' for ATI.
Both are still incomplete but work, try them."

TV-Out doesn't work with nouveau drivers and it probably never will. I need TV-Out all the time.

"a simple tweak using VESA mode (explained earlier in this
thread) can get you a nice bootscreen again."

How will a noob ubuntu user be able to apply technical fixes? If you are a techie you can just as well skip Ubuntu and might want to run GenToo. But an ordinary desktop user is not going to apply patches. Ubuntu is supposed to be "the distro for everyone", so Canonical not fixing this bug an leaving it to the user just doesn't add up.