Comment 71 for bug 540801

The solution offered in Comment #2 / #29 works fine for me. The blinky-lights splash logo is now working. Thanks, guys. This is on a 5-year-old machine with an AMD Sempron chip and on-board graphics. I do have 2GB RAM, though.

The boot does not seem longer. However -- regardless of whether I use the proposed fix or not -- I am getting long delays after logging in before GNOME loads. We're talking 30 seconds or more. That was not so in Karmic, from which I upgraded.

As for grub splash, that I got working by editing the WALLPAPER= line in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme.