Comment 44 for bug 1057532

I've now installed the proprietary fglrx driver, reinstated the "vt.handoff=7" in /etc/grub.d/10_linux and then did a "Sudo update-grub".

Upon booting with the current Ubuntu 3.5.0-17-28 kernel, I didn't have a black screen anymore. Other than that, there's next to none difference between booting with "vt.handoff=7" disabled and enabled. With it disabled, there's a 2-3 second black screen between thwe boot screen and the LightDM login screen. With it enabled, the pause is 1-2 seconds. So neither gives me a smooth transition between boot screen and login screen, as I had with the opensource driver.