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

[Rogutės Sparnuotos]

C Anthony Risinger (2011-05-28 12:16):
> On May 28, 2011 8:41 AM, "Rogutės Sparnuotos" <rogutes at googlemail.com>
> 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.
> >
> > No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs.
> 
> Hmm I forgot to mention I use syslinux on all the machines ... I wonder if
> that has something to do with it.  Syslinux seems to turn the whole screen
> gray for a sec or two/three before this happens.  I have a custom color
> syslinux.cfg but I've twiddled with all the settings and nothing seems to
> affect it.
> 
> C Anthony

My syslinux.cfg has only the TIMEOUT and LABEL directives and syslinux
doesn't do anything with the screen (doesn't even clear it).

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