>
> Weird. I just upgraded to -11 and when xdm starts, the login widget shows
> up as a blank box. Even weirder, switching to a text console and back
> suddenly brings the text back! (Except that it cleared the background to
> white in the process) Everything seems to work OK now, but earlier on, on
> my first attempt to restart X, the X server crashed after I logged in.
>
Yup, that is the bug that I'm seeing.
I haven't tried switching to text mode and back: but I just found out
that changing resolutions and changing back (e.g. CTRL-ALT-{+,-}) also
works.
It seems that some kind of video initialization is not being called
when the server first starts.
-BenRI
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