I'm still having this issue in 0.4-23. The bottom half of the screen on VT1 is corrupted (flashing green objects), and VT2-6 are totally black. This does not happen without usplash, and also does not happen without framebuffer mode (i'm using vga=792 by default, but also tested on 791 and 788 with the same result). Got an up to date edgy system with a GF 6200 Go using the 8774 nvidia driver from the edgy repository.
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