booting into 12.04 results in a purple sceen for just a second.

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Published on 2012-09-09T11:47:15Z Indexed on 2012/09/09 21:49 UTC
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I have a vanilla Ubuntu install running on an Ivy-Bridge ultrabook that is using Intel 4000 graphics. I have enabled autologin via a line in the lightdm config file. My boot is very fast, however, it is ugly. The screen will be black, all solid purple for a second, then Plymouth for a second, then desktop.

I would really like to figure out what the solid purple is and how to remove it. I would like to either have a different color (black) or skipped entirely.

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