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.
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) consolefonts/ Arabic- Fixed15. psf.gz
(2) switch to the console (alt-f1) and login
(3) setfont /usr/share/
(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.