Comment 10 for bug 328440

"usplash," I deduce, refers to the process that triggered the issue, and I think this is the wrong thread for this issue.

for the benefit if anyone who finds their way here with the same issue as myself, the tactical fix to my problem appears to be to remove the pretty boot up sequence (and configure the console for my screen resolution) - removing the references to 'quiet' and 'splash' and replacing with, say, vga=0x307

about /boot/grub/menu.lst changes: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=542082
about vga=: http://tinyurl.com/5ff36

this doesn't fix the underlying issue, whether in usplash or elsewhere.