C Anthony Risinger [2011.05.28 0002 -0500]:
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 :-)
Well, I get something like this intermittently immediately after switching to the new resolution. I have a Dell Latitude E6510 with a 1920x1080 screen, Core i7 graphics, and use late KMS. When switching to this resolution, the screen turns, well, sometimes black, sometimes white, and sometimes striped for probably about a second, but then everything goes back to normal, continuing to show the boot messages. So I would suspect this is something different from what you're seeing. I expect it to be one of those glitches that will get ironed out over time, given that this screen configuration started to get supported only in the 2.6.38 kernel and that they were really struggling to get it to work. Cheers, Norbert