Login screen changes resolution after a second

It' weird but my login screen on this laptop with arch always loads up at a lower resolution (larger font) then after like one second the screen refreshes into a higher res login. Didn't really know where to search for this issue, does anyone have any idea why it does that? There's also like a randomly red-purple colored T character around the top of the screen doesn't really bother me but maybe it's related somehow. Also I'm describing this in context of an alienware m15x with nvidia geforce GTX 260m
And it's being driven by the nouveau pkg xf86-video-nouveau
Last edited by NeoZelux (2012-12-28 01:24:06)

HungGarTiger wrote:Intel, Nouveau and ATI drivers already enable KMS automatically for all chipsets. So you need not install it manually.
Yes, but not for early boot. That needs to be enabled manually. (Nothing to install, though.)
HungGarTiger wrote:
cfr wrote:Basically, the entire display goes to pieces like garbled white on black and shifts a lot and then after a noticeable moment, the display resolves into a much higher resolution version and everything settles down.
I used to have a problem with Ubuntu/Debian, where by my screen would randomly flicker for a second and random noise/garbled black and white static would appear until I played with something on screen. Then everything would settle down for a while, the resolution would remain the same though. That's never happened on Arch..
I should be clear: it happens as part of the boot process - not when the machine is up and running. It always happens at the same point when the nouveau driver is loaded. The reason it changes resolution is because it is switching to a driver which supports the graphics card properly and so I'm getting native resolution after that point but not before. I can't say it bothered or bothers me. The first time it was heart stopping because nothing, nothing was working and I felt I'd tried everything to get the graphics to be bearable but after that it was just part of the boot process and I was always quite pleased to see it because it meant that the graphics driver was loading! (I had trouble getting it to work and ended up having to blacklist stuff or something. Since this was my first install of GNU/Linux, getting it all working on non-ideal hardware was somewhat like being thrown in at the deep end, even though I used Debian. At least, so it felt at the time... People kept telling me to use the nvidia drivers and I kept explaining that I could not do so because they didn't make them for PPC!)
Last edited by cfr (2012-12-29 03:00:58)

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