[arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi <mail at meyithi.com> 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.

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C Anthony