Plymouth screen never appears during boot

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Binary package hint: plymouth

Plymouth screen never gets triggered. Instead, a cursor keeps blinking on top left corner for entire boot duration.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 1 08:21:23 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6710b (FP643PA#ACJ)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-020634rc6-generic root=UUID=3dd7b4c8-8aa4-41c0-9118-52f8acd781d5 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 01/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68DDU Ver. F.15
dmi.board.name: 30C0
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 71.2E
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU8321MK7
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68DDUVer.F.15:bd01/15/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq6710b(FP643PA#ACJ):pvrF.15:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30C0:rvrKBCVersion71.2E:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6710b (FP643PA#ACJ)
dmi.product.version: F.15
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard