Comment 48 for bug 629910

@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