Comment 4 for bug 648013

Additionally, the card used for my debug has 256MB onboard shown in lspci below, as I noted a comment in #554143 relating to ati cards with <=32Mb having the console dropped to 8bpp by a kernel patch.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=47381156a8f0d793bacfa346cc4cc515399525f7

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30fc
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at 7000 [size=256]
 Memory at d2300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Expansion ROM at d2320000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
 Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
 Kernel modules: fglrx, radeon

My full plymouth debug log is attached here too