C Anthony Risinger (2011-05-28 00:02): > does anyone else experience <title>? > > i've been getting this for sometime -- on intel, nouveau, and radeon > KMS drivers -- and it looks terrible. after the module loads within > initramfs, the space *within* the old resolution is pure white, > surrounded by normal black. i'm pretty sure the "whitebox" > corresponds to the size of the previous resolution because it's > different sizes on all my machines, and pretty small on my 1920x1280 > laptop (@ 15.5in ... awesome :-) > > anyways, long story short it turns back 2 black when written over > (systemd/initscripts output) or cleared, so: > > echo -en '\e[H\e[2J' > > ... takes care of it. i basically just did a `clear > out`, looked at > the codes, and made a small initramfs hook from the above. > > it works fine as is, but is anyone else seeing this? it annoys me > because i don't run getty on tty1, so it's there forever unless i > clear right away. not really a big deal, as it took longer to write > this msg than fix it, but it started happening a few kernels ago IIRC > and i'm wondering if we can just throw something like this into > mkinitcpio (if `quiet`, or before output), because it looks terrible > :-( > > i'll open a report unless someone feels like throwing it in there, > it's a pretty simple change. No white boxes here with radeon KMS (built-in) under 2.6.38.3. Actually, I can even see the "PCI Device Listing ..." table from the BIOS when I switch to tty1. No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos
