Ok, we all agree that this is a bug. Nouveau has several issues (bug 553789 being one of the rather grave ones that affect me personally) so just suggesting to use that rather than the nvidia driver doesn't help many of us. As for why plymouth is there: It functions as a message manager between the user and the asynchronous upstart system services which would fight for keyboard input and mix their messages without a manager which would be a total chaos. That's why simply getting rid of plymouth isn't really doable (don't ask me why they didn't postpone upstart instead, I don't know). Also, the change in natty was already tried in maverick, but back then it broke much more than it fixed so it was quickly reverted. Those issues were adressed by the parties involved so with natty this should look better. Note that it is highly unlikely that those fixes will be backported to lucid and maverick. . While I agree that the text mode splash looks horrible and I passionately hate it, the risk is too high that trying to fix this in the stable releases would make the system unbootable for many (or it wouldn't have taken until natty to improve it).
I'm not a developer either, only a long time alpha tester that has nvidia cards so don't ask me about more details there. -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
