On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:06:40 -0700, Jim Hayward jimhayward@embarqmail.com wrote:
Looks like nomodeset is a good work around for me. So far I have not seen any lockups since booting with it. I do see a corrupted screen, I think right when GDM starts to load, but once it loads the display is fine.
I think it is just displaying what was in the video memory before actually drawing the new screen. I have been thinking about filing a security related bug for this since it lets people see stuff from someone else's session. In my case I see a corrupted copy of my background image after a reboot before I have actually logged in, which shouldn't be happening. The security risk is pretty low and modesetting has other issues, so I have been taking a wait and see attitude on this particular bug.