Comment 4 for bug 550104

I'm marking this as a duplicate of Bug #551013 because it's the same underlying problem and the same workaround, which will hopefully be adopted by the Ubuntu developers, fixes the problem. Here's the workaround. http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/lucidubuntu-10-04-high-resolution-plymouth-virtual-terminal-for-atinvidia-cards-with-proprietaryrestricted-driver/