On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Markus M. May <mmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28.05.2011 21:41, Rogutės Sparnuotos 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. > > Hm, me is having the same problems, using Grub 2. This problem is only seen, > if I do use the external Graphic card in the laptop I am using. >> >> No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs. thanks for input all ... i see it on these cards: (nouveau) nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1) (radeon) ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] (radeon) ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] (i915) Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) ... just seemed weird to me that most others don't, and on such a wide array of cards. after installing arch under KVM for other reasons i realized i'm running a little bit older version of syslinux -- as i didn't actually reinstall it after pacamn upgrades -- so ill try that too. it doesnt happen under qemu, but im not using KMS in qemu (though one does exist now: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-April/010396.html :haven't been able to try it out yet tho). meh, it doesn't matter in the end, i really just want to know if i'm doing something to cause it ... since it literally happens on every machine i own, and some at work. if anyone is interested in the solution i use: /lib/initcpio/install/clear ----------------------------- # vim:set ft=sh: install() { SCRIPT="clear" } help () { cat <<HELPEOF Clear the console immediately HELPEOF } ----------------------------- /lib/initcpio/hooks/clear ----------------------------- # vim: set ft=sh: run_hook () { echo -en '\e[H\e[2J' } ----------------------------- ... then add the `clear` hook before everything else ... yes, everything: # grep ^HOOKS /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="clear base consolefont udev autodetect plymouth pata scsi sata filesystems" -- C Anthony
