Bug#244787: Radeon IGP 340M: white screen of death with bad fullscreen requests

[Branden Robinson]

retitle 244787 xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] video mode changes result in 
blooming ("white screen of death") on Radeon IGP 340M rev 0
thanks

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:49:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0-7
> Severity: normal
> 
>   I have a laptop with a Radeon IGP340M card and a 1024x768 panel.
> Unlike some laptops I've used, changing to a smaller video mode in
> XFree86 results in a "white screen of death": all the pixels flip to
> white or cyan, and the intensity increases until I switch out of
> that video mode, kill X or switch to a console (at which point X tends
> to crash anyway).

FYI, this is known as "blooming".

And no, it's not good for the LCD electronics.  Or so I'm told.

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