Comment 6 for bug 395374

Are you sure this is solely a usplash issue? I can reproduce it even when booting with nofb and without the splash option by simply doing:

  (1) boot into a kernel with "nofb" (splash, quiet disabled)
  (2) switch to the console (alt-f1) and login
  (3) setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Arabic-Fixed15.psf.gz
  (4) showconsolefont
  (5) setterm -blank 1

and then wait 1 minute, as not all of the screen blanks. I have reproduced this behavior on hardy, intrepid, and karmic's 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels.