On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) Sorry, what did you try? Revert the commit? -t
