Additional tidbit of information. A display connected through a docking station works fine with the "nvidia" driver but fails miserably when using the "nv" driver. When the laptop display gets the noise on shutdown, the external display does not and will show the splash screen (or shutdown scripts if splash is disabled) correctly. I no next to nothing about hardware and this may or may not be of any benefit but I thought I'd throw it out there.
-- [upstream] nvidia-glx doesn't restore state on NV35/NV36 cards. Causes random mess on screen or system hang. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32389 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
