Comment 15 for bug 463769

It's not only multi-screen setups that are affected. I'm running a single screen (1440x900), with nVidia drivers version 185.18.36, and am getting the grey rectangle on boot and when running sudo -u gdm xsplash.

Logs follow:

suzy@gzunda:~$ sudo -u gdm xsplash

(xsplash:2887): Gdk-CRITICAL **: _gdk_pixmap_new: assertion `(drawable != NULL) || (depth != -1)' failed

(xsplash:2887): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_draw_pixbuf: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

suzy@gzunda:~$ sudo more /var/log/gdm/xsplash-user.log
[14:59:33:1790247342 - MSG] xsplash started
[14:59:33:1790247425 - MSG] get_logo_filename(): looking for the best logo for s
creen width...
[14:59:33:1790247436 - MSG] ** Chose `medium'
[14:59:33:1790247443 - MSG] ** logo filename is: /usr/share/images/xsplash/logo
_medium.png
[14:59:33:1790247450 - MSG] get_throbber_filename(): looking for the best throbb
er for screen width...
[14:59:33:1790247457 - MSG] ** Chose `medium'
[14:59:33:1790247464 - MSG] ** throbber filename is: /usr/share/images/xsplash/
throbber_medium.png
[14:59:33:1790247472 - MSG] background_image = /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg_2560
x1600.jpg
[14:59:33:1790247479 - MSG] logo_image = /usr/share/images/xsplash/logo_medium.p
ng
[14:59:33:1790247485 - MSG] throbber_image = /usr/share/images/xsplash/throbber_
medium.png
[14:59:33:1790423873 - MSG] get_logo_filename(): user provided a logo on the com
mand line; using that
[14:59:33:1790425010 - MSG] get_throbber_filename(): user provided a throbber on
 the command line; using that
[14:59:33:1790434426 - MSG] throbber started (50 frames)
[14:59:48:1775676308 - MSG] ** timeout **
[14:59:49:1774488183 - MSG] fade finished
[14:59:49:1774488510 - MSG] exiting...