Rene,
I can confirm that I should have paid greater attention to detail. I
apologize to any I may have inconvenienced by communicating BAD
information. On another hunch last night, I checked
/etc/apt/sources.list to confirm that I was indeed using amd64, and not
i386. To my horror and deep embarrassment, i386 was installed. i386
never had a problem with my hardware configuration, only amd64. I
apparently burned the i386 ISO to disk twice, thinking one of them was
amd64. So I went back and retrieved the correct amd64 ISO which is
dated 16 October.
To make amends for my error, I performed deeper testing of both ISO
architectures, and resolved the usplash problem with amd64 on the
Inspiron 1420. The solution is similar to orange2k's:
1024x748 16-bit resolution set using startupmanager
fbcon and vesafb added to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (vga16fb not needed
in my case)
"blacklist vesafb" commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
Harvey
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Black screen, and bad usplash.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150930
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