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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)

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Lucid Kubuntu: garbled splash screen and random failures to start X
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