Comment 12 for bug 440749

@Youri:

I think, you are mixing up usplash and xsplash. xsplash is the animation you see, *after* is started. It looks like this:

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=xsplash.png>

Do you see this one? If yes, then the duplicate status is justified. The text messages do always appear. What they did is that they removed usplash for bootup which makes you see them. My suggestions was to enable the simple usplash that we see during shutdown also during bootup so you don't see any of the text messages.

Once kms (kernel-based mode-setting) is working, the complete switch to plymouth or similar should be made. I seriously doubt that the bootup will ever get fast enough so the computer boots into X11 quick enough so that xsplash really pays off.

Adrian