On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in >> Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible to early framebuffers. >> As to the original question, it seems that "quiet" and "loglevel=4" are >> identical indeed, unless you use Syslinux. > > For what it's worth: I'm using syslinux with quiet without seeing this > problem (using i915). > > Also, the last kernel commit I pointed to in a previous email shows a > place in the boot code where "quiet" is indeed different from > "loglevel=4", just in case someone came across a different problem. i finally got around to trying this; it eliminated the "white box" effect for me, on these two machines anyway (nvidia/radeon) thanks! ... i'm slightly curious why you *don't* see it Tom :-), i haven't made the change on our netbook yet, which also uses i915, so we'll see i suppose. -- C Anthony
