Shutting down 9.3 & Funny colors
 

I hope there are more people here with this problem and someone might even have a solution for it:

When I shut down my Suse 9.3, It logs out normally, then gives me a black screen and then ....... I get a screen filled with lines and dots and whatever in thousands of colours blinking and then if my computer feels like it it shuts down or doesn't.

What I don't see is the shutting down process itself, when starting up everything is fine. I can see what's happening there. Does anyone recognize this problem or knows what to do about it?

usually graphics problems should include graphics card information, which is relevant here: what is your graphics card?

My graphics card is a Geforce XFX5700 Ultra dual dvi vivo. It runs fine under KDE though and no funny things when starting up

just as I thought.
You need to set up Suse with accelerated graphics, which invovles getting the nvidia closed-source driver. it may be available in yast. this should fix your problem

It has the Nvidia driver installed. Including 3D acceleration. KDE runs smooth including openGL. The problem occurs when shutting down, meaning closing X. Normally people see a screen here saying 'suse is shutting down' or something, with the option to press escape to see the messages. What I see here is a screen filled with funny characters in different colors and some blinking.

What also doesn't function is the ctrl-alt-f1 etc thing, I'm just getting a black screen here (in KDE).

I get the same thing with my fx5700 and do with every distro I try, (doesnt happen with NV driver, just nvidia accellerated, think its a bug with the drivers

I found this on another page:

Corrupted console

Description
After having started X and switching back to the console (either by closing X or "ctrl-alt-1") the console is corrupted. You get either blue and green boxes, sometimes blinking, a black screen or a pinkish and white graphics screen. The computer is still perfectly usable, when you type something in the console the screen changes but is never readable. You can switch back to X (starting it again) and everything works right (at least in X).


Affected Cards and Drivers
It seems that there is a connection between the chipset and the severity of the problem. My GeForce 4 shows the issue even without framebuffer support.
The problem started to appear in driver 4496. 4363 seemes to be ok.


Solution
Different solutions are proposed.

In most cases switching off the TV-out seems to solve the problem. Just add "IgnoreDevice" "TV" in your XF86Config.

Disconnect the TV cable.

Set (in xf86config "DPMS" "false".
De-activating the framebuffer support (e.g. by removing "vga" in your kernel start parameters") seems to solve the problem in many case, although not for me and my GeForce 4.

Another possibility seems to set EXACTLY the same video mode that your are running in X. Sounds kinda hard.

Using vesafb-tng from Michael Januszewski seems to work.

I'll try it tonight

Good I fixed it:

open SAX2, select graphics card, then properties, then goto expert.
In this list find IgnoreDisplayDevices and enter TV. Save & reboot.

Problem solved (in my case)