Screen clearing issue when X starts

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 14:52:54 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, umang gupta <umang.ece at gmail.com> wrote:
> X clears the contents of the framebuffer when it starts, so the
> display is briefly all black
> while X starts.

Not so in recent xserver AFAICT, for instance the radeon driver was
recently fixed to do the above:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=6532aeddacdeda3aa534264741c8648e1c449e76

Tormod


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