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[Tore Anderson <tore@xxxxxx>]

I have problems reliably booting Intrepid my Lenovo ThinkPad X61s too.
After the messages from Grub has been printed (Starting up... \ Loading,
please wait...) it will usually end up in a state where the blinking
cursor is shown in the top-left corner of the screen.  However,
sometimes the screen is completely blank (but still lit), some other
times I've seen some blue patterns along the upper edge of the screen
(pic attached), sometimes most of the screen is flashing red (vid
attached).

If I remove «splash» from the kernel command line it will boot
correctly, although there's some error messages relating to uvesafb
printed before I'm asked for my passphrashe.  I've attached a pic.

With the usplash included on the Kubuntu Intrepid alpha-2 CD it would
usually work fine (however there was some cosmetic corruption with the
progress bar showing up in other parts of the screen), although I ran
into the above problems (except maybe the blue patterns, not sure) from
time to time.  Another boot would normally correct it.  However, after
doing a dist-upgrade it _always_ fails.

Tore

** Attachment added: "blue-patterns.jpg"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16074203/blue-patterns.jpg

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[Intrepid] Usplash Screen Corruption
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243682
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Status in “usplash” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: usplash

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 1 on the Asus EeePC 701 with integrated Intel GMA 900.

On shutdown, the screen flashes with corrupted graphics, before flashing red. Finally, the Ubuntu shutdown progress bar appears before the machine turns off.
(see attached video (H.264)).

This is not 100% reproducible, but happens on the majority of shutdowns.

On startup, the progess indicator becomes corrupted (see attached video (H.264)).