On May 28, 2011 8:41 AM, "Rogutės Sparnuotos" <rogutes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Hmm I forgot to mention I use syslinux on all the machines ... I wonder if that has something to do with it. Syslinux seems to turn the whole screen gray for a sec or two/three before this happens. I have a custom color syslinux.cfg but I've twiddled with all the settings and nothing seems to affect it. C Anthony
