Bug#481579: xserver-xorg-video-intel: grub2 splash image causes invisible text

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Jayen wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.3.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I've recently installed grub2, and even more recently set it up with a splash image.  However, this configuration causes my X session to not display text.  Only text from xterm and xemacs appear.  Not windowmaker, gnome, kde, pidgin, firefox, thunderbird, etc.
> It works fine with the xorg vesa driver, just not the intel drivers.  I've tried 2.2.1 and 2.3.1.
> It doesn't matter (in my xorg.conf) if I set up multiple monitors, enable the frame buffer, set the videoram, enable dri, use aiglx, change the colour depth, resolution, or many other options.  The splash image just seems to hose the text in the X server.
>   

Does adding
    Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
or
    Option "EXANoComposite"
to the Device section of xorg.conf help?

I don't see why grub2 splash image would be related to EXA, but text not
being displayed looks like many other EXA composite bugs.

Brice