It's necessary to perform a vesa modeswitch before the framebuffer becomes available, and hence there's no way to avoid this.
** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- usplash doesn't delete image buffers https://launchpad.net/bugs/75413 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs