Comment 9 for bug 34821

Nope, this is not fixed, at least not on my machine. The splash screen does appear after about two thirds of the shutdown process (that is, when /etc/init.d/sendsigs is run), but before that, I still get the text mode shutdown...

Also, occasionally I get a completely garbled splash screen, with both usplash and text mode showing at the same time, causing very weird artifacts. While that *might* be related to the Nvidia driver, the overall issue is not (also happens with the nv driver).