Comment 50 for bug 103148

I confirm this bug on an Acer Aspire 1694 WLMi.

My fix:
edit /etc/usplash.conf to use my laptop's true resolution. It was detected as 1280x1024, but my laptop's native resolution is 1280x800.
then I ran the following commands
$ sudo swapoff /dev/sda2
to turn off my swap partition
$ sudo mkswap /dev/sda2
to rebuild my swap partition
$ sudo update-initramfs -u
to rebuild my initial boot image to use my new, rebuilt swap partition