Comment 11 for bug 961349

Ok, so to restate, the issue you're reporting here is that the plymouth splash comes up using the text theme instead of using the high-resolution graphical splash.

The answer is that your kernel has not brought up a framebuffer, so plymouth has no way to display the graphics.

Your lspci output shows the following:

00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] [10de:07e1] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:736b]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
 Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Expansion ROM at fea40000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

Neither the nouveau nor the nvidiafb driver is loaded, according to /proc/modules on your system. This explains why there's no framebuffer, but is very unusual. Have you made any changes to the video configuration on this machine? Do you have any of the nvidia binary driver packages installed?

Your bug report also does not include a copy of /var/log/dmesg because your user is not part of the 'adm' group. Could you attach this file to your bug report by hand?