@auxbuss after grub it goes blank for about 20 seconds then the nvidia logo comes up for about 1 minute then the generic background comes up for about 15 seconds then my chosen photo background comes up for about 15 seconds then the top and bottom panel appears then the gnome-do window then another 5 - 10 seconds before the mouse become responsive and everything becomes "normal"
also (forgot to add this to my previous post) on shutdown everything freeze for about 2 minutes before the usual ubuntu shutdown routine of scrolling shutdown messages etc starts to roll -- nvidia 256.53 xorg-server 1.9.0 performance regression with antialiased text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp