Description of problem: When starting a new server shows for quite a long while what was on a screen in the preceding session (like terminal windows with a text in them, or whatever documents/data were displayed on a session close). In an age of digital cameras this leaks an information like crazy. This happens at least with "vesa" driver as so far this is the only one which works on my hardware (Radeon 9500 Pro video). BTW - this new X server seems also to mess with colors of my console fonts (making, for example, sometimes a coloured display in vim in places practically unreadable) to an extent of turning them into black-on-black; but I cannot really tell when and how it will do that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-0.99.3-5 How reproducible: always
This is a video driver specific problem, in which the driver does not clear video memory before enabling the display. It is best to report the issue to X.Org bugzilla for each driver the problem is encountered for, as this is a general X problem, and not OS distribution specific. We do have a bug about this kicking around in our bugzilla already somewhere which seems to have gotten outprioritized by bigger fires on a continual basis, however it's much more likely to get fixed faster if reported upstream. Please paste the upstream URL here when you report it, and we'll track it there too. Thanks in advance.
*** Bug 166599 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there an upstream URL for this one? I had a quick query of Xorg bugzilla, but didn't find one. I thought I had seen one before, but perhaps it was another bug in our bugzilla. Anyhow, we'll track this upstream if you find/file a bug in X.Org bugzilla. TIA
> Is there an upstream URL for this one? I thought that it was but I could not find anything. Maybe I remember wrong. The situation changed, though. I checked again and with a vesa driver indeed some "lefovers" are still displayed but only a background. How this is done that only a background I have no idea but I do not think that this classifies anymore as a bug. I will close that. If you think otherwise, or you see something else, then shout.
For the record, 4 years later: The "garbage" displayed by the startup of xorg using the vesa driver disappears if we use this option: Option "ModeSetClearScreen" "off" If the option is On (the default) or missing we see "garbage" for a second or so. We set it to off and the screen is cleared on X startup. (it's really like this even if the Option name suggesting the opposite) Tested on xorg 7.1.