Kubuntu Boot Splash Screen- Image Corrupted Following Nvidia Driver Installation

This problem was discovered in Kubuntu Lucid Beta 2.

Using current Nvidia drivers and version 173.

I also have this problem in RC version of Kubuntu Lucid.

Based on the assumption that Plymouth is the latest Kubuntu Splash Screen.
If Xsplash is the latest Kubuntu Splash Screen please could someone change this bug report and assign it to the correct developers.

Just a bit more info.

This is the same splash screen I'm getting on my 2 laptops both running kubuntu 10.04 - one with the binary nvidia driver the other with the binary ati driver.

The nvidia computer has both ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop packages installed and the ubuntu splash looks and functions perfectly.

I am also seeing the corrupted screen after installing the nvidia drivers (one marked "current"). Running the release version of 10.04

Same screen for me too. Nvidia current/173 on KDE 4.4.2. Basically installed latest released version and all went pear shaped after that. Was fine before.

Same here. Installed from scratch vanilla Kubuntu 10.04 64 bit. Boot time splash screen is high res and system boots up ok. Installed Nvidia drivers via Hardware Drivers. Now Boot splash is very low res and system hangs during boot leaving the splash screen on. Does not get to the login screen. System unusable.

Installed from scratch again. Enabled all repositories, dist-upgrade (KDE 4.4.3, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic). Boot time splash screen is high res and system boots up ok. Installed Nvidia drivers via Hardware Drivers and same symptoms as above. Can't use the system any more.

Last entries in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (manual transcript)

(EE) NVIDIA(0): No display devices foud for this X screen.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configurarion.

Update: The issue is not Kubuntu or KDE specific. In what can only be described as the actions of a desperate man I downloaded and installed the "official" Ubuntu with Gnome. Fresh install, same symptoms after enabling Nvidia drivers. I've had bad experiences before when upgrading to new Ubuntu versions. Was waiting for the final release just for this reason. And now a vanilla install doesn't work. Gutted. I know I don't have to enable Nvidia drivers. First time in six years I had to use Windows on my home laptop. 7 isn't too bad actually.

Kaarel: This bug is a) a dupliate of bug 551290 and all discussion about low res splash should be done there, and this bug *only* tracks low res splash, if you can't boot to the login screen with the nvidia drivers, please file a new bug with 'ubuntu-bug nvidia-current' (or nvidia-173, nvidia-96 if you're using legacy drivers)

Same problem here:
I installed a vanila Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 and updated everything using apt-get.
Then I installed KDE and up to this point, everything works normal.
Then I downloaded a couple of login screen themes and switched my default theme with one of those.
Then trouble started. t first, I viewed the low res logo at boot, with some aliasing errors. The boot proccess stops there and then I can not even switch to console mode with Ctrl+Alt+F1, the computer is just frozen.
I tried a trick: inserted the ubuntu cd-rom on drive and hard-rebooted the PC, then choose "boot from first hard disk" option and then I could log in to mi KDE desktop.
I reverted my login screen theme back to the default one, and rebooted. Now I see a splash screen reading "kubuntu" but the computer freezes again, keyboard is blocked, etc, same as before.
My PC currently only boots when using the CD-in-tray trick.

I have the same problem but i am using Ati radeon graphics
ATI radeon HD 4650 Graphics, asus m2a vm HDMI mother board, AMD phenom X3 processor