Removing usplash while using vesafb console (dapper)

[Constantine Evans]

I am trying to disable usplash on my dapper system. Removing the splash 
boot option works fine when I am using a normal console, but when I try 
to use a vesafb console (vga=791), nothing ever appears on the 
framebuffer. The system boots into X, but the framebuffer remains blank.

Since usplash is supposed to be in userspace, is there some way to fix 
this without having to compile a custom kernel?

Constantine