Comment 67 for bug 540801

I have the bootsplash issue with the Lucid release. I'm using x86_64 Lucid on an Intel Core 2 Quad with 8 GB of RAM and an NVidia 8800 GTS card w/640 MB of RAM. The successful first boot from the hard drive showed the bootsplash, but subsequent boots after loading the current NVidia driver through Hardware Drivers only showed a substantially blank screen with some corrupt pixelation groups. I tried changing the boot screen resolution all the way down to 640x480 and 8 colors, but it only made the screen corruption larger on the screen. There was no way to tell what was happening. I think that I interrupted several disk checks thinking the system locked up. I finally let it run over lunch and it booted through to the desktop.

After finding this bug report, I tried the solution in comment #2. It worked like a charm all the way up to 1280x1024 and 24 colors. I used the 'sudo su' approach mentioned in comment #29. Many thanks to Mr. Remnant and Mr. Gobel.

I feel obligated to note that virtually every Lucid user using NVidia or Intel drivers (and perhaps others) will encounter this very prominent bug. That will be their introduction to Lucid. Surely saving less than a second of boot time isn't worth that level of adverse user impact. With respect, perhaps the priorities should be reevaluated.