After talking with a lot of people since filing this and seeing that triage was going in the strange directions with this problem... I spent a lot of time doing more homework and research. I spent a lot of time on IRC # grub yesterday talking with a few of their dev's and support's. I followed their advice and... I guess we'll see where this goes:
GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #33318: Unknown process in grub 1.99~rc1 is setting and passing invalid graphics data to linux kernel and Xorg. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?33318 You should now be able to tie this bug (LP Bug #781445) to that Upstream Bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781445 Title: Xorg's HAL causes Purple screen or Black Screen on GDM startup. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
