Comment 3 for bug 252146

I can confirm this too, along with another problem which may be related:
virtual terminals don't work anymore. :(

I don't have a digital camera, but I found this which illustrates the bar problem pretty well too:
http://grigio.org/ubuntu_8_10_intrepid_ibex_preview

Version:
ii usplash 0.5.22 Userspace bootsplash utility

I attached the output of lspci and lshw, as well as xorg.conf.