Comment 45 for bug 150930

Ok the first workaround by changing the xres and yres in usplash.conf worked for me, but i also tried the other fix by brettalton on another fresh installation, here is the result (of course usplash now works)

angela@reisercoppermine:~$ cp -p /boot/grub/menu.lst ~/menu.lst && cp -p /etc/usplash.conf ~/usplash.conf && diff -ruN ~/usplash.conf-bak ~/usplash.conf > usplash.diff && diff -ruN ~/menu.lst-bak ~/menu.lst
--- /home/angela/menu.lst-bak 2007-10-23 19:03:10.000000000 +0200
+++ /home/angela/menu.lst 2007-10-23 20:52:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 # control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
 # command 'lock'
 # e.g. password topsecret
-# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
+## password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
 # password topsecret

 #
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
 ## alternatives
 ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
-# defoptions=quiet splash locale=it_IT
+# defoptions=quiet splash locale=it_IT vga=792

 ## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
 ## e.g. lockold=false
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@

 title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
 root (hd0,2)
-kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=86357344-b0b5-4dd0-a2da-f89a361ad0b5 ro quiet splash locale=it_IT
+kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=86357344-b0b5-4dd0-a2da-f89a361ad0b5 ro quiet splash locale=it_IT vga=792
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
 quiet

Note that i have 2 ubuntu systems on the same hard disk for testing purposes
Hope this helps