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[Paolo Sammicheli <xdatap1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alle 13:12 del 25/4/2010, Neil ha scritto:
> Hi
> 
> I've just installed the Lucid Release Candidate, which is great.  The only
> annoyance I've got is with the current NVIDIA driver; it makes the Ubuntu
> boot splash look awful in that it's a bit flickery and the resolution is too
> low.  The splash is perfect with the nouveau driver, however.
> 
> Is this a bug that will be fixed, or is it simply a problem with NVIDIA?
> It's a shame if it can't be fixed, as I can imagine it being very
> off-putting to new users.  It makes the boot process look amateurish.

Thi problem was early reported on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551013

and Scott James Remnant explained in his blog the problems behind it.

http://www.netsplit.com/2010/03/30/all-about-kernel-mode-setting/

Ciao
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Paolo Sammicheli
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