[Bug 51402] Re: [Bug 51402] Re: "splash" causes fade-to-white on Toshiba Satellite M40X (ATI Radeon Mobility X600)

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 03:07 +0000, Sam Vilain wrote:
> I think it's a radeon-specific bug.  The atyfb (iirc, not near my laptop
> atm) driver doesn't work with a lot of radeon cards.  My old Dell
> Inspiron 8000 did the same thing with that driver, too.
> 
> The reason I logged it against this was my suspicion that the Ubuntu-
> specific(?) "splash" extension was making a card-specific choice to try
> to use a better framebuffer driver than "vesafb".
> 
> Failing in this manner would be fine, but it does exactly the same thing
> with the "Safe VGA" menu option from the Live/InstallCD.  That menu
> option should *definitely* not use card-specific framebuffer drivers for
> the splash; either VGA or VesaFB are the safest.
> 
> Perhaps allow "splash=vesa" and "splash=vga", and add those options to
> the LiveCD installation menu?

Nah, on mine it's nvidia, and it happens whether I use the nvidia
proprietary stuff, or the nv kernel/xorg stuff. I also had it happen
with an ATI card under MacOSX on the same monitor. It only happens on
this LCD panel that I have (none of the others), and it's not particular
to the video card, or the OS that I'm running. Just the monitor sucks :)

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"splash" causes fade-to-white on Toshiba Satellite M40X (ATI Radeon Mobility X600)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/51402