I recently updated to 12.04, but now whenever I turn my computer on it goes into just that blank darkish purple screen right before the actual desktop appears and stays there. It will make a noise indicating that I need to login with my password but it is still bank. So I tried typinh my password in anyway, but it's still doing nothing. The only way I can use Ubuntu is to go through "recovery mode".

Any tips?

-Mattehw

Thanks guys for the help, but I still cannot get it to work.

Goineasy - I PC is very capable of handling any of todays software or operating systems.

pottaro - I put it into safe mode as I have it now and I ran < Ctrl-Alt-F1> and it took me to that black screen asking me for login and password. I don't know what it's talking about there. I am the only user and the only other time it asked me for my name is when I get into Ubuntu and it already says my user name. I typed in my name which I thought would be the user and then my password to get into Ubuntu and that didn't work.

Nevermind, I just got it fixed!
I went to system settings and found the proprietary settings and fized it. I didn't know where it was or else I would have like you said in the first place portaro

thanks guys