10.04 Upgrade hangs with just a cursor and background

[Jim_in_Omaha]

I did the upgrade which has gone pretty fair. I would see it load the background screen and can hear the Ubuntu startup and would just sit there for around 20 seconds than the rest of the desktop would load.

After searching I found this article and thought I would give it a try.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/546087

My BIOS showed that the floppy was disabled but it was selecting the 1.44 if I had it enabled. So I set that to disable also and Shazzam now I have the fast bootup like it should.

[Mark Phelps]

Were you running ATI restricted drivers before you did the upgrade? And if so, did you remove them first and replace them with the open-source drivers?

If your answers are Yes and then No, you will need to remove the ATI drivers since there are problems right now with the Beta and ATI drivers.

[Jim_in_Omaha]

I am using Nvidia drivers for a 9800GT.