Hi, everyone!

I have just installed Arch (after N hours -- a little hard after fedora) and most things seem to work fine. However sometimes when I reboot/shutdown the machine, the screen starts flickering, showing horizontal stripes (just like a TV with bad signal).
The computer is Compaq Presario V2615US (AMD Sempron 3000+, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, widescreen). The kernel and X are 2.6.28-ARCH and 1.5.3, respectively. I am using the ati (which in turn invokes radeon) driver in my xorg.conf. The Xorg.0.log shows no errors...
The problem seems to be correlated with the wireless networking, when I manually connect to a network with iwconfig (because I have never seen it, while using the cable). I had the same (unresolved) issue in Fedora 8 with X 1.3 (basically, this was the reason for me to switch to Arch).
Have anyone encountered similar problem? I also tired to install the catalyst driver from AUR, but it requires catalyst-utils, which in turn needs Xorg 1.6 wierd...

Thanx in advance,
Leonid.

I'm also observing a little screen flashing action when restarting Arch and I've noticed that it does not happen when restarting from the console, but does happen in both KDE and Gnome. More importantly I noticed that switching to the virtual console via ctrl-alt-F1 produces the same weird flashing screen, but switching to the GUI and back again (ctrl-alt-F7 followed by ctrl-alt-F1) fixes it and then restarting shows the shutdown process instead of the flashing screen so it seems like a problem with the virtual console rather than an actual shutdown problem.

I actually think that it's due to the driver (Radeon XPress 200M with radeon driver; which card are you using?) because there is no such thing on another machine with the same Arch 2.6.30, but based on Nvidia GeForce 6100 card (with nv driver)... I also noticed that Openbox is more prone to such failures than Xfce's xfwm.

I'm using good old Intel GMA 4500 graphics.

I'm wondering if we have the exact same issue because you're seeing horizontal stripes which I don't. What I see upon shutdown or just by switching to virtual console 1 (via alt-ctrl-F1) is a flickering screen that has a single line of flickering, unreadable text that appears to be scrolling from right to left.

Just tried it (alt-ctrl-F1) under Ubuntu 8.10 and got the same result and just like on Arch if I switch back to the GUI and then back to the virtual console (alt-ctrl-F7 followed by alt-ctrl-F1) the flickering is gone and the console login prompt is back.

Hi,
I can confirm this problem.
I have Arch x86_64, NVIDIA 8600GS 512 MB Graphics card, with Nvidia Proprietary Drivers.
Whenever i use the command line, the shutdown is clean, All Daemons stopping e.t.c is displayed.If i use shutdown from the Menu, then a garbled image is displayed & no shutdown messages are displayed.
I am not using splashy (though was previously installed) & Gnome desktop.
Just thought should share.

Same for me.
Arch x86_64, nvidia driver 185.18.31