On Wednesday 14 January 2004 8:22 pm, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > What I don't understand is how the picture manages to come back. Or > rather, in which forgotten deeps of my video ram it manages to > survive. Isn't the video hardware being initialized first by the > chipset, and later when X comes up to show me the gdm login? Not to > mention the fact that there are lots of different stuff being > displayed before this 'ghost picture' makes it's reappearence. The contents of video ram aren't initialized by the hardware. They just come up in a random state are and just going to be overwritten--why would the video card both to zero it out? In this case, the contents of video ram just happens to be the "ghost picture" you are describing until it gets overwritten. The image in the video ram will persist through a reboot because there is nothing actively destroying it's contents. -- Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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