A splash of no VESA

Today updated my Ubuntu beauty, Odin, with everything Canonical had to offer.
It seems like I have a problem with one of the updates, I believe it is this one:

2008-07-27 22:18:54 status installed linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic 2.6.24-19.36

It is no biggie, the problem seems to be that right now, if I keep booting with kernel options I used to had, I'm not able to use high resolution on the console.
For the tests I've done, it looks like the culprit is the 'splash' option, if I remove it, everything is kosher again with the console resolution and my beloved fonts.

This was the kernel entry from menu.lst:

kernel               /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=a3e104c2-f719-4c82-99e1-2706e05b9f3a ro splash quiet vga=771

And right now it looks kinda palsy like this:

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=a3e104c2-f719-4c82-99e1-2706e05b9f3a ro vga=771

Related links:
No console mode in high resolution with Ubuntu 7.10 (applies to 8.04)
VGA Boot modes to set screen resolution