Comment 16 for bug 850895

I was about to say that using

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash plymouth:debug=file:/var/log/plymouth-debug.log "

GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

works too, without the plymouth:force-drm bit on the end.

I just saw your last comment and I will be trying that out next. Unfortunately, I no longer have the cruddy Nintendo DSi camera I used to get that picture of my monitor error the first time around, and neither I nor my roommate have any cameras handy. In fact, I actually asked a question on AskUbuntu just a while earlier on how to save the vbeinfo output (http://askubuntu.com/questions/67236/is-there-a-way-to-save-the-output-of-vbeinfo). I'll see what I can do in the meantime; if the output's not too long I may just end up writing it down.