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[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:21:42AM -0000, Saïvann Carignan wrote:
> There's been several people reporting blank or corrupted usplash in
> Intrepid including myself. I just found that if I boot without usplash,
> right after Grub menu, initramfs complains :uvesafb : Failed to execute
> /sbin/v86d
> 
> This is strange because I don't use any framebuffer mode, and uvesafb
> seems to start anyway.

I noticed this as well, and it's described by bug 246269.

> /sbin/v86d is not installed by default. In my
> case, installing "v86d" package is a workaround that brought usplash
> back to life. Can someone try this workaround and confirm if it solves
> the issue?

Installing v86d, and thereby enabling uvesafb, made things much worse for
me.  X wouldn't even start properly.

I have since reinstalled Alpha 3 in order to switch this machine from i386
to amd64, and somewhere in the course of that change, this problem went
away.

Does anyone else here happen to have been running Ubuntu i386 on 64-bit
hardware when experiencing this bug?

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 - mdz

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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)).