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no ubuntu "orange bar", a dark screen, then ubuntu loads up just fine, but why no orange bar??

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my ubuntu starts up fine!! but i see no "orange incremental bar"
when i turn my gateway e-400 om, it brefly flashes "starting up"
then the screen goes dark and finally lights up when the ubuntu start up screen

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#1

missing orange bar at start up! however after some moment of dark screen-ubuntu statrs up just fine-BUT WHY NO ORANGE BAR???

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#2

missing orange bar at start up! however after some moment of dark screen-ubuntu statrs up just fine-BUT WHY NO ORANGE BAR???

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Ryan Maki (ryan.maki) said : 		#3

The new startup screen simply isn't detecting the correct settings for your screen. This may depend on your screen resolution and video card. The same thing happened to my Dell laptop with 8.10 when I used the 64-bit installer disc. The screen was black when booting, but Gnome worked just fine. When I later installed the 8.10 32-bit version the start up screen worked. And now in 9.04 64-bit it works just fine.

As long as this doesn't affect the operation of your Desktop, I would consider it a minor glitch. Since the new startup screen is relatively new, there is a good chance that a future update of Ubuntu will fix the issue.

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#4

im sending for the 9.04 desktop version, should i use 64 oor 32 bit version?

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#5

im sending for the new upgraded version the 9.04, im new to ubuntu, before upgrading do i have to erase the HDD then install the new ubuntu, and do i use the 64 0r 32 bit version on over the old ubuntu 8.04?????

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#6

im sending for the new upgraded version the 9.04, im new to ubuntu, before upgrading do i have to erase the HDD then install the new ubuntu, and do i use the 64 0r 32 bit version on over the old ubuntu 8.04?????

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Ryan Maki (ryan.maki) said : 		#7

I would recommend that you use the 32-bit version if you haven't used Ubuntu extensively with the machine unless the machine has 4 GB of RAM or more.

You do not have to erase the existing data for either a Windows or existing Ubuntu install. When you insert the 9.04 disc while running the 8.04 desktop there is a very good chance it will offer to perform an upgrade. This has worked well for me in the past, simply log in to the desktop, insert the new Ubuntu disc and let it perform the upgrade.

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Best Ryan Maki (ryan.maki) said : 		#8

This bug report describes the problem that I think you are having:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/147623

You can try the workaround described on that page to verify that this is the error.

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#9

actually, the problem was solved when i installed another graphics card, a 64mb nvidia g-force. the orange bar appeared all ran great! until i upgrade to ubuntu 9?! then everything turned to crap! so i reinstalled ubuntu 8 and then i was able to install "flash" and java just fine! word to the wise-THIS UBUNTU 9 IS NOT ALL ITS CRAACKED UP TO BE!!! ITS MORE OF A DOWN GRADE THEN AN UP GRADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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spirit52 (reptiledude063) said : 		#10

I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT UBUNTU 9 IS MORE OF A DOWN GRADE THEN AN UPGRADE!!!!!!!
WHEN I HAD UBUNTU 8 IT RAN MUCH FASTER! AFTER I UPGRADED TO UBUNTU 9, I CAN SEE HOW EVERYTHING SLOWED DOWN, AND MY SCREEN SAVER WERE SLUGGISH AND MY FLASH AND JAVA DID NOT WORK AND WOULD NOT RELOAD FROM THE PRIVIOUS WEB PAGES. SO TAKE HEED PEOPLE UBUNTU 9 STILL NEED ALOT OF WORK!!!!!