185.19 colors flashing on shutdown?

[wiresquire]

Hey

I'm testing the 185.19 drivers (x64) on the Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 RC (with all updates).
When I shut down, the machine begins shutdown as expected. The screen goes blank, the backlight goes out, but then a second later, the backlight comes back on. Then it cycles through a full screen red, green, blue and white screen before shutting down.
This behaviour did not happen before installing the nvidia drivers.

Anyone else seen something similar?

Regards
ws

[AaronP]

The Ubuntu Intrepid graphical shutdown thing has a bug where it doesn't draw the whole screen, resulting in flashing colors on the bottom half. I haven't tried Jaunty's graphical shutdown, but it wouldn't surprise me if it has a similar bug.

[thefirstm]

A workaround I found is to enable the graphical framebuffer using vesafb or uvesafb. If you google around on the Web, you can find a howto for this.

[wiresquire]

Ahah! Thanks for the tip.

I have vga=892 in my 8.04 install, so that was automagically loading vesafb.
Tried the same in 9.04 and no more flashing colors. The shutdown screen looks weird - all sorts of wrong colors, but I expect that's to do with 8 bits screen mode etc.

Cheers
ws

[thefirstm]

Yes, that is correct about the shutdown screen being corrupted. If you use a mode with 24-bit color, then that problem will not occur.