no usplash on boot in Kubuntu Karmic

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Binary package hint: usplash

There is only text. If this is the boot sequence replacement for xsplash then its pretty bad, looks like the system is broken.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 3 22:02:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: DELL Inc. Studio XPS 435T
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Package: usplash 0.5.40
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=7b3ef03f-ac73-4cdf-99b6-0c1330378c48 ro splash quiet quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: usplash
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
UsplashConf:
 # Usplash configuration file
 # These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.

 xres=1920
 yres=1080
XsessionErrors:
 (npviewer.bin:2351): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
 (npviewer.bin:2546): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
 (npviewer.bin:2574): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
 (npviewer.bin:2728): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
dmi.bios.date: 05/05/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: DELL INC.
dmi.bios.version: A09
dmi.board.name: 0X501H
dmi.board.vendor: DELL Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: DELL Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDELLINC.:bvrA09:bd05/05/2009:svnDELLInc.:pnStudioXPS435T:pvr00:rvnDELLInc.:rn0X501H:rvrA00:cvnDELLInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 435T
dmi.product.version: 00
dmi.sys.vendor: DELL Inc.