I am experiencing similar problems on an AMD64 Laptop: Compaq R3000z. It has a 1280x800 LCD panel and a GeForce4 420 Go.
During the boot up of the live CD the progress bar was at the very top of the screen and the image was gray. And have the same problem on the installed system. -- usplash appears black and white https://launchpad.net/bugs/67545 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs