startx vanity

Dimitrios sehh at altered.com
Fri Apr 18 23:45:50 BST 2003


I found the author of the S3 driver and asked him about
the garbage, here is his reply:

> What you're seeing is actually the leftover text and VGA font data
> from the console session.  There is only one frame buffer, so the
> console data overwrites the IBM logo very early on.

Though he didn't say if he has any plans to properly clear the
frame buffer before changing graphics mode.




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