Bug#272979: grub: Grub splashimage doesn't work with nvidia 440mx

[Haggai Eran]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-8
Severity: minor

Hi
I tried to use grub's splashimage with a nvidia geforce 440mx.
When I boot, the screen remains blank, and a cursor blinks on the top
left. After the timeout, or when I press enter, the screen gets corrupted filled
with characters. After the kernel starts, the screen gets back to
normal.

IIRC I've seen grub splashimage work on my computer with one of gentoo's
old livecds.

this bug seems identical to the one reported on redhat:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85029

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information