[Bug 539582] [NEW] Plymouth and VT Consoles 1-6 only display a flickering screen

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Binary package hint: plymouth

What I expected:
A shiny new bootscreen...

What I got instead:
I'm not sure if this is really a plymouth related problem, but I guess it is the best package to report this bug.
While booting I only see a black screen with white stripes flickering on it, in fact they are moving from the left side of the screen to the right one.
When the system is fully booted up I am able to switch to TTY7 with a working X Server, TTY1 - 6 also display a similar flickering screen!
I am using the VESA driver with a SIS mirage 3+ graphics device due to lack of a supported Lucid driver. I will try to get a better driver maybe that would work.
Bootscreen and all TTY were working on Karmic.


lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
00:1f.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
03:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
03:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
03:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller

If you need further information, please let me know.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed

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Plymouth and VT Consoles 1-6 only display a flickering screen
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/539582
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