OK. I've figured out why this was happening. If I remove the vga= option from the /boot/grub/menu.lst, usplash works fine and so does suspend and hibernate. It seems that passing that option to grub is not necessary and was breaking suspend and hibernate (on wake up).
Bug closed. -- Usplash appears to break suspend/hibernate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs