Comment 31 for bug 431184

Unfortunately this issue is still present on my laptop. Updates were installed today (10th October).

ii usplash 0.5.41 Userspace bootsplash utility
ii usplash-theme-ubuntu 0.26 Usplash theme for Ubuntu
ii xsplash 0.8.3-0ubuntu1 X based bootsplash

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

$ uname -a
Linux knd 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:55:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/version_signature
Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic

The model of the computer is Compaq Evo N1015v

$ cat /var/lib/acpi-support/*-*
0F0B
Compaq
Presario
0100