corrupted shutdown screen when values in /etc/usplash.conf are wrong

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: usplash

The usplash screen is scrambled on an amd64 hardy installation, the box is using a radeon card and the ati open source driver, the boot splash has no issue

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I have an i386 installation of Hardy on a laptop that use opensource ATI drivers and it works fine actually.

Can you also look if you use some non-default options like "vga=" in /boot/grub/menu.lst and if the content of your /etc/usplash.conf file is the same of your actual screen resolution when using X?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there no non standard option in the grub configuration, the issue is there when using the hardy desktop CD too for example

the xorg and usplash graphical resolution are not the same no, would that be the issue?

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks for your confirmation. Normally, the /etc/usplash.conf file should have the same default resolution as Xorg. Can you change the values in /etc/usplash.conf to be the good ones and then type "sudo update-initramfs -u". Would be interesting to know if this bug is caused by this wrong configuration and if it still happens when usplash is properly configured.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

using the same values for xorg and usplash make it work correctly

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks for these informations. If you remember it, can you say which resolution you had in /etc/usplash.conf before you changed it? 640x480? Also can you attach the file created by this command in a terminal so we can know your graphic card? sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.txt

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Since this bug is caused by a incorrect screen resolution detection, which is a temporary solution for bug 188764, I set this bug as a duplicate of bug 188764 which should fix all these issues at the same time.