by dathem » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:38 am
Hello, I have installed U.E many times on a number of computers and I have seen some of what you experience. I also have seen the Nvidia splash screen on startup, but only with certain models of an Nvidia card. I don't think there is any place to enable or disable that splash screen, at least I can't find anything on the systems I am using now. Did you go to Start-up Manager and change anything? This is where you can select a start up "theme", on this machine I am using to write this, I hadn't gone to the S-U manager yet since I installed 2.1. Under the appearance tab my screen showed a blank, black selection box, at the Usplash option. When I clicked on it, I had some 5 options, since I had also installed several other themes; UBUNTU STUDIO, Snow-intrepid, debian, UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, Ultimate Edition 2.1, I then selected UE2.1, and then hit close. ON another computer I installed the Christmas theme last and it changed things to look kind of blurry, flourscent, not pretty at all, so I went into the SU Manager and clicked on the UE2.1 theme.
I used to have a laptop with an ATI card--lets say I have no desire to use another ATI card again. I have a friend who also has a laptop with an ATI card that he did manage to get to work, he tried to install the new UBUNTU Jaunty and it doesn't support his card, so he can't have the FGLRX video driver. He had to go back to installing Intrepid again..So, you may possibly be in the same boat if you try to install UE2.2 or Jaunty on your laptop.
1)HPE-500F a 6 core @ 2.70 Ghz, with 8 gigs of Ram and a 1.5 T HD
the graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 6450 with 512 MB DDR3 Ultimate Edition 3.2, Windows 7
2) HP Pav Elite m9040n Core2 quad 4gig ram Nvidia Geforce 8400, 640 g hd Win.7, UBUNTU 10.10
3) Gateway FX4710-UB0031 Core 2 quad 6 g ram Nvidia 8600gt-1gigddr3, 640g hd & Windows 7, & PCT Destined
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