blank screen is blank after upgrading to latest kernel

[anatoly techtonik]

Binary package hint: usplash

After latest updates system boots into blank screen. It seems like it finally boots to login form, but no progress is visible after GRUB menu. Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the system. Alt-Shift-F1 ... F12 doesn't work. With previous kernel there is a blinking cursor.

After some fsck and aptitude manipulations in recovery mode system boots up to login form, but still no progress information is displayed during the process. Only new splash screen animation pops up from time to time.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 20db595a7600396752c39299ed2c326d
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
Date: Tue Sep 22 22:52:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: usplash 0.5.37
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=00b0c28b-3e0b-4bec-96ab-b0ab4604afff ro splash vga=786
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: usplash
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UsplashConf:
 # Usplash configuration file
 # These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

 xres=1152
 yres=864
dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F6
dmi.board.name: 8I945P-G
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd04/06/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rn8I945P-G:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr: