Comment 31 for bug 188764

Warren Dumortier : The update fix the problem completely if you are using X when installing usplash (so it will not work from the alternate install CD). To test it, remove your /etc/usplash.conf and reinstall usplash. You'll see that usplash now creates a /etc/usplash.conf file that contains the good values. That's all we can do from now. The real solution is to probe automatically the good resolution at each boot and to stop using static configuration files (/etc/usplash.conf), but this won't happen for Hardy according to Matthew Garrett.