Fixed in edgy
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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boot splash has dashed vertical lines on inspiron 8200
https://launchpad.net/bugs/26899
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I've seen exactly the same kind of stripes when using a few other things
that put my Inspiron 8200 into 640x480 resolution (a couple of DOS-based
disk-repair utilities do this, among others) so I suspect it's actually
a Dell BIOS bug.
To work around it for Ubuntu, I added vga=792 to the kernel
