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

[Markus M. May]

On 28.05.2011 21:41, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:
> 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.
Hm, me is having the same problems, using Grub 2. This problem is only 
seen, if I do use the external Graphic card in the laptop I am using.
> No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs.
>
R,

Markus