[Intrepid Ibex] corupted splash images on startup

[eitan]

when starting Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex,there are duplicate partly images of the status bar on the screen while ubuntu loads.
i did a fresh install and this problem shows up everytime.
my system is Pentium 3-600hz,512 Ram,and 32MB TNT Nvidia Graphics card the motherboard is probably an unkown intel board.
I use Intrepid Ibex Alpha 2.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in usplash.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

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. /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?

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I've just read again your bug description and what you get generally appears during each new ubuntu release due to modifications in boot process. You don't need to test anything, developers should take care to fix this issue before intrepid hit stable. Thanks for your contribution to ubuntu! Since this bug is a duplicate of bug 244688, I'll mark it as such.