boot-time usplash does not show regardless of usplash.conf

I found a related bug where the same behaviour is described only with LiveCD, Tribe5 and Nvidia GeForce: Bug #140759. Also I found a rather old descussion describing the very same thing: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=275391

Some more info:
$ lspci | egrep -i '^.*VGA.*$'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
$ egrep -i '^.*VGA.*$' /var/log/messages
Oct 27 02:11:19 lapdancer kernel: [ 13.470368] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Oct 27 02:11:19 lapdancer kernel: [ 51.168000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Oct 27 03:14:12 lapdancer kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=3f223b67-deb5-4fac-8591-1c24f6429a6f ro splash vga=ask
Oct 27 03:14:12 lapdancer kernel: [ 55.818683] Console: colour VGA+ 80x43
Oct 27 03:14:12 lapdancer kernel: [ 50.364000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Oct 27 03:53:16 lapdancer kernel: [ 9.230797] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Oct 27 03:53:16 lapdancer kernel: [ 49.736000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
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i have the same problem on my laptop , i rather see a freezed image of my desktop that lasts for 2 or 3 seconds at startup instead of the usplash, and then at the shutdown i see very large ugly fonts of the X scripts.

I found out that Ubuntu's install must have gotten something wrong in the initramfs. What I did was the following to get usplash nicely shown from right after grub menu exits:
1) sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf to read:
# Usplash configuration file
xres=1024
yres=768
2) sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the default line
# defoptions=splash quiet
to read
# defoptions=splash vga=791
(or leave 'quiet' if you wish)
3) sudo update-grub
4) sudo update-usplash-theme usplash-theme-ubuntu

I first left out steps 2 & 3 and didn't have usplash right after grub passed control but rather had for a couple of seconds some "scrolling text" (as it's normal if you change to tty1 at boot with Ctrl+F1) until the font changes to a more contrast shape.

There seam to be many people having trouble with this very issue on Gutsy (google on "update-usplash gutsy").

Cheers.

I'd like to add this was on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M7400 hardware.

Now having issues with visable lack of ttys (see Bug #129910).

Thanks for your bug report. There has been a bug with ubiquity installer which installed wrong values in /etc/usplash.conf of a huge quantity of computers in Gutsy, this is bug #150930. Can you download and install the latest Hardy alpha release and confirm if you can still reproduce this bug?

Latest Hardy is now released. Can someone install it and confirm if the bug can or can't be reproduced?

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