usplash crashes every bootup, on Acer Aspire One

Binary package hint: usplash

In some update between Karmic Alpha 2 and Karmic Alpha 3, usplash started crashing every bootup. The "ubuntu" logo screen stays put but no animation occurs on the progress bar beneath. When the computer is shut down it shows the same logo screen, still no animation.

The problem possibly started occuring when usplash set resolution to the native resolution of the monitor, which is 1024x600 (Acer Aspire One netbook).

I submitted this bug through apport, so hopefully it attaches the backtrace and whatever else it generated...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 23 16:50:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /sbin/usplash
MachineType: Acer Aspire one
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: usplash 0.5.32
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-3-generic root=UUID=5d08d0a2-a8e4-4788-96c1-33ae136a9a90 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /sbin/usplash -c
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xa784f0 <memset_var+1072>: mov %edi,(%eax)
 PC (0x00a784f0) ok
 source "%edi" ok
 destination "(%eax)" (0xb7ff4530) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: usplash
StacktraceTop:
 memset_var () from /lib/libusplash.so.0
 bogl_tcfb_clear () from /lib/libusplash.so.0
 usplash_bogl_clear () from /lib/libusplash.so.0
 usplash_clear () from /lib/libusplash.so.0
 clear_text () from /lib/libusplash.so.0
Title: usplash crashed with SIGSEGV in memset_var()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686
UserGroups:

UsplashConf:
 # Usplash configuration file
 # These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

 xres=1024
 yres=600
dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.05
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire one
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.05
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.05
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.05:bd02/20/2009:svnAcer:pnAspireone:pvrV1.05:rvnAcer:rnAspireone:rvrV1.05:cvnAcer:ct1:cvrV1.05:
dmi.product.name: Aspire one
dmi.product.version: V1.05
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer