Not able to boot with usplash

Output of sudo update-grub

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-13-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

doing a which usplash shows /usr/sbin/splash

    The only thing I have changed here is the vga and it is right for my virtual terminals (tty1-6) also the failure of usplash to boot was also before making the change.

 Output from sudo hwinfo --framebuffer | grep "Mode "

  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits

    If usplash is 16-bit and I have used 8 bits, then usplash should dumb down to something like dapper splash.

Could you put some of your system specs, like outputs of lspci -vv and lspci -nvv commands here? As attachments, not copy-paste.
Some others of us have various problems with usplash too, see bug 86666. That bug is specific to amd64 platform, though.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. How is your monitor connected to your video card? Is it via
DVI or VGA? Thanks in advance.

 status needsinfo
 assignee <email address hidden>

ok both lspci -vv as well as lspci -nvv are being attached as lspcivv.txt as well lspcinvv.txt

       Brian, my monitor is connected to my integrated graphics card (i845GL) chipset on the motherboard through VGA

 From reading the other bug, somethings on my system :-

 1. there is a vga=0x0305 in both the kernels
 2. there is no /etc/usplash.cfg :(
 3. apt-cache show usplash shows 0.4-44 version

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRt-FNa-_I8

   Ok, the usplash is the progress bar when the user turns on & off his system right,
  I do not get tht, my only indication is the hdd lights to know tht something is going on
when the system is being turned on, and wait till there is no activity on the HDD LED
to know the system has halted :(

As asked by hddgh in bug #105871 , sorry that was a duplicate :-

Thank you for reporting this bug. There are some things I would like you to do:

1. please change your 'vga=' parameter in GRUB to specify the value in decimal (792, for example, is 1024x768), and then try again;
2. please run apport-retrace on the latest crash dump, and collect the backtrace, and add it here.

After changing the vga from vga=0x305 to vga=792 both at the defoptions as well as the kernel which are there,

I got this,

Press <Return> to see video modes available, <Space> to continue, or wait 30 secs.

 After pressing return I got the below thing :-

Video Adaptor VESA
Mode COLSXROWS
0 F00 80x25
1 0F01 80x50
2 0F02 80x43
3 0F03 80x28
4 0F05 80x30
5 0F06 80x30
6 0F07 80x60

Enter mode or 'scan' = scanning further I got few more modes

7. 0100 40x25
8. 0120 132x25
9. 0121 132x43
a. 0122 132x50
b. 0123 132x60

Please lemme know what the issue is here?

modified menu.lst

I also tried vga=791 but get the same thing. Do not know what to choose hence using space, hence most probably it goes to defaults, and hence the terminals tty1-6 are a big mess, cannot do anything there.

shirishag75: you do not seem to be loading the framebuffer module for your video card. Please try to boot with 'video=intelfb' as a boot kernel parameter.

Please note that you may have to adjust intelfb's various parameters. See linux/Documentation/fb/intelfb.txt for details.

Ok i tried it both ways with the vga=791 & using conservative settings & without vga=791 conservative settings, no difference.

the one with vga=791

Hi all,
        I am self-rejecting it, the VGA mode in my BIOS was of 1 MB , which in Windows is enough for the usplash there but apparently not in Ubuntu. Putting it to 8 MB resolved the usplash issue. Sorry for taking your time & thanx for your guidance.