Hi Julian, The few colors on the splash screen is a consequence of you having the nvidia binary drivers installed; the only framebuffer plymouth has available to use with such drivers is a 16-color VGA framebuffer. The kubuntu theme could be improved in how it displays on VGA, though; this is bug #551290.
The loss of the bottom part of the display is unfortunately not a bug we can fix as long as we're using the VGA framebuffer, because this is simply how the hardware displays in VGA mode. I don't think 640x480 gets a lot of testing from the hardware vendor on newer widescreen LCDs. :/ Launching gdm from failsafe X is because of broken integration between kdm and the failsafe-x upstart job, which currently *always* expects to launch gdm. This is bug #557930. Finally, the fact that you land in failsafe mode at all indicates some kind of bug with the X server. Since you're using the nvidia binary drivers, I'll reassign this to the nvidia-graphics-drivers package. ** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) -- Lucid Kubuntu: garbled splash screen and random failures to start X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568382 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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