Comment 15 for bug 151741

"lsmod |grep fb" produces no output here. But I managed to solve the problem. The contents of /etc/usplash.conf were initially "xres=1280 yres=1024", which the laptop display can't handle. I changed that to "xres=1280 yres=800", and then had to execute "sudo update-usplash-theme usplash-theme-ubuntu", which fixed it.

Also, this bug seems to be the same as #150930: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/150930