[arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in

[Rogutės Sparnuotos]

C Anthony Risinger (2011-05-28 00:02):
> 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 :-)
> 
> anyways, long story short it turns back 2 black when written over
> (systemd/initscripts output) or cleared, so:
> 
> echo -en '\e[H\e[2J'
> 
> ... takes care of it.  i basically just did a `clear > out`, looked at
> the codes, and made a small initramfs hook from the above.
> 
> it works fine as is, but is anyone else seeing this?  it annoys me
> because i don't run getty on tty1, so it's there forever unless i
> clear right away.  not really a big deal, as it took longer to write
> this msg than fix it, but it started happening a few kernels ago IIRC
> and i'm wondering if we can just throw something like this into
> mkinitcpio (if `quiet`, or before output), because it looks terrible
> :-(
> 
> i'll open a report unless someone feels like throwing it in there,
> it's a pretty simple change.

No white boxes here with radeon KMS (built-in) under 2.6.38.3. Actually, I
can even see the "PCI Device Listing ..." table from the BIOS when I
switch to tty1.

No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs.

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