Comment 11 for bug 463769

I have this exact same problem on my Ubuntu 32 bit, upgraded from Jaunty, never had Karmic alpha/beta installed. Nvidia card running in TwinView mode using the latest 190.42 driver manually installed. Nvidia card 9500GT. Problem is exactly like the YouTube video link. When I run "sudo -u gdm xsplash" it looks the same way as during boot up. xsplash 0.8.5 from Karmic updates repo is installed.

$ apt-cache show xsplash
Package: xsplash
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 96
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.8.5-0ubuntu1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), ubuntu-xsplash-artwork | xsplash-artwork
Filename: pool/main/x/xsplash/xsplash_0.8.5-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
Size: 17056
MD5sum: a47cf6a05bb45a6cba01e48f27babd9e
SHA1: a9090834278ae3d9cec91b4c566251243aacd839
SHA256: 4006c09a5670b14dc7828cf267ec20956d54797ba51610ef681a5b6b33ccbedf
Description: X based bootsplash
 xsplash is a userspace application that uses the X interface
 to draw a splash screen at boot.
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/xsplash
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, ubuntu-netbook-remix