No messages on shutdown

I don't know if this is related to the recent bootsplash postings on the list, but for about the last 2-3 weeks shutting down from KDE (or going to init 3) gives me a black screen with white 'gibberish' text on it. I would expect to get the bootsplash or shutdown messages, but no longer. Booting up gives me the bootsplash or verbose mode, it's only shutting down that gives me the weird screen. I'm quite sure this happened after an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my system at that time. I'm currently running the 2.6.8 kernel and KDE 3.3 beta. I'll certainly provide more information as required. I'd really like to get this fixed as it's quite annoying on an otherwise great system. Thanks. -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm