"Using the 2.6.31 kernel with the Ubuntu 11.10 userspace, you get the splash 
screen with no problems?"
Yes, I get the splash screen. The only thing weird about it, is that it says 
Ubuntu 11.04 on it (however, when shutting down, the same screen says Ubuntu 
11.10). But I could live with that.

"How does the splash screen look? From the details in your bug report, it looks 
like it should be a text-only splash screen (because your /proc/fb is empty)."
Yes, I have a text mode splash screen. As written above, it says "Ubuntu 11.04" 
in the middle of the screen. It has four dots (changing colors between white 
and red to emulate a progress bar) and a password prompt at the bottom.

"You could test whether booting without nouveau works by adding a 'blacklist 
nouveau' line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf."
Thanks for the hint, but that didn't help. It would have been surprising if it 
had, because /etc is *inside* the encrypted partition. Or should I have run 
some kind of command after that change, to ensure the change gets copied to, 
say, the initrd on the /boot partition? Maybe "aptitude reinstall 
apropriate-kernel-package"?

Thanks for the hint to "nouveau". I didn't know that the "nv" driver was
replaced. I guess this explains, why the x-server nv driver was
uninstalled during the update.

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  splash screen doesn't display on kernels newer than 2.6.31-22 => can
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