Comment 14 for bug 571678

I can confirm that Plymouth is not yet working on Acer Aspire 5310 and Ubuntu 10.04 clean install with the latest updates. The behaviour at boot is the same as above: no Plymouth screen but blinking cursor, screen backlight on and off and text is displayed no matter what the splash settings are. I tried the tricks above (re-install, command line) to no avail. Boot splash remains off. The Ubuntu image with dots is displayed at shut down, though.