Comment 17 for bug 571678

Affected too, i915 after the upgrade from 9.10, no plymouth in the initrd, no splash at bootup nor at shutdown.
Reinstalling plymouth doesn't work, update-alternatives --auto default.plymouth says there is no default.plymouth.

Before trying the FRAMEBUFFER=y thing, is that workaround supposed to work? it seems that the issue is not in mode setting or framebuffer, it's plymouth that's not getting loaded at all. Mode is set correctly and there is a nice fading thing from white on black text to gdm with no mode change.