Comment 31 for bug 1359689

Ubuntu 14.10: with no other changes, upgrading to the 3.19 kernel from:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-vivid/
works for me.

Linux x 3.19.0-031900-generic #201502091451 SMP Mon Feb 9 15:10:05 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Intel® 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
*-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f0a00000-f0a7ffff ioport:1800(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f0b00000-f0b3ffff

$ apt-cache policy plymouth
plymouth:
  Installed: 0.9.0-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 0.9.0-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.0-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status