Fw: Karmic Usplash update from 0.5.4.0 to 0.5.4.1 on 10/9/09

[Bruce Miller]

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> From: Bruce R Miller <brucemiller1 at rogers.com>
> To: Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 9:08:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Karmic Usplash update from 0.5.4.0 to 0.5.4.1 on 10/9/09
> 
> This problem has attracted an active bug thread: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/447692
> 
> It is not linked to the nVidia proprietary drivers. It has also been reported 
> among users of the open-source "nv" driver and ATI users. So far, none of the 
> commenters has reported this problem with Intel graphics. For all, the 
> workaround so far is to remove the "splash" parameter from the kernel boot line.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Daniel Chen 
> > To: Thomas Doyle 
> > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 5:42:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: Karmic Usplash update from 0.5.4.0 to 0.5.4.1 on 10/9/09
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
> > > Today  an update of Karmic Usplash causes my Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 to show
> > > garbled symbols that look like blue Chinese letters and no Login Prompt.
> > >
> > > I narrowed it down to usplash by installing updates one at a time and
> > > then rebooting until the tty was no longer working.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if this had anything to do with the fact I have a Nvidia
> > > grapics card using the proprietary  185 drivers.
> > 
> > Are you certain that reverting the proprietary drivers to
> > 185.18.36-0ubuntu3 results in the same corruption?
> > 
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