Re: grey stipple background

Feigning erudition, Dave Airlie wrote:
% I'm working on using Xfree in an embedded application and I want to not
% have the grey stippled background show up on boot.. I want the screen to
% stay black until I draw something to it ...
% 
% I know this is probably blasphemy ;-).. but googling hasn't turned up
% anything nice and easy to handle this...
% 
% not afraid of a recompile.. just need to know where to start digging...

Mike Harris has XFree86-4.2.0-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch at
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/patches/:

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--- xc/programs/Xserver/dix/window.c.die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die	Tue Feb 12 16:33:04 2002
+++ xc/programs/Xserver/dix/window.c	Tue Feb 12 16:45:32 2002
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@
  *
  ******/
 
-static unsigned char _back_lsb[4] = {0x88, 0x22, 0x44, 0x11};
-static unsigned char _back_msb[4] = {0x11, 0x44, 0x22, 0x88};
+static unsigned char _back_lsb[4] = {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
+static unsigned char _back_msb[4] = {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
 
 int screenIsSaved = SCREEN_SAVER_OFF;
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Kurt
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