[arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:
>> 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)
>
> Sorry, what did you try? Revert the commit?

beh sorry about that -- completely wrong context

no i only removed `quiet` and added `loglevel=4` ... this alone
eliminated the artifacts.

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C Anthony