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The bug I was having with Lucid is best described at http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/
A black screen persists for most of boot-up, showing no progress; then an ugly blast of colored lines followed by a Plymouth screen for a second or two before going to a login screen.  What's expected
is to see the Plymouth screen and a progression of dots as things proceed.

My elderly laptop has the following video:
lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

My kernel is as follows:
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-22-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010

I had earlier solved a different Plymouth problem, a nasty hangup at fsck, by upgrading mountall, which now is:
mountall --version
mountall 2.15
Copyright (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd.

The blackscreen at the first part of Plymouth was finally solved simply
by using synaptic to install the v86d package.  No other tweaks were
necessary to get past the black screen phenomenon and see the
progression of dots as things proceed.    This may have brought boot-up
down to 56 seconds from 60 as well.  Incidentally, the synaptic install
does its own initramfs revision to incorporate v86d.  In my case I don't
get vesafb or uvesafb, but at least the black screen is gone.

** Affects: getdeb.net
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-sis (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Old SiS video needs v86d for Lucid Plymouth
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584339
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