The work arounds work to varying degrees for most people experiencing this issue, and I won't rehash them. That being said, I run the ATI proprietary driver in Ubuntu 10.10 and had this issue as well. This is an issue with proprietary drivers and NOT plymouth itself or Ubuntu. This is a prime example of closed versus open source and these type of things can and do happen. Until vendors such as ATI, Nvidia, et al, share openly with open source programmers these issues will pop up from time to time.
My issue was fixed using a combination of startup manager (as mentioned above) and grabbing the latest stable release of the ATI proprietary driver. Frankly I cannot be sure which actually fixed the issue because I used startup manager while the latest driver was downloading. I didn't see the issue as being a big deal and really didn't pay much attention to it. All I really know is now the issue is fixed and the only changes I made were to use startup manager, install the Latest ATI prop driver, and a bit later install Zorin splash screen utility (can't remember its name ATM). So one of these or all of them fixed it for me. Sorry I cannot be more specific but as I said before this was not a big concern of mine and so the fix wasn't a priority. Personally I feel this is a simple cosmetic problem and being that it is not harming the functionality and only on screen for a few seconds, it most likely will never be a high priority to fix. Oh I am sure it will be fixed sooner or later but not before things like the ethernet/DHCP issues and such are ironed out. Those issues are effecting the functionality so rightly should be a higher priority. Along with that, ATI and Nvidia are not going to go out of their way for this cosmetic issue any time soon. Bottom line is try the work arounds mentioned several times here, or wait for the next update and hope they or ATI/Nvidia fix it. This is the current price we pay for a completely free (as in to use) OS. As long as big M, big U, and big A are able to do what they do unhindered, these things will continue to pop up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563878 Title: Ubuntu splashscreen big and ugly after installing ATI/nVidia proprietary graphics driver -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
