Missing checkerboard on startx problem

[alan]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> 2.6.8-rc2-mm2, kde3.3-beta2
> 
> Startx has not, for quite some time now, displayed the checkerboard 
> pattern that tells you the x-server is alive, and according to the 
> folks on the x.org list, redhat patched that away quite some time 
> back.
> 
> As this is a quick, usefull check on the monitors condition, and 
> really has no bearing on the startup time as it now shows a black 
> screen during that time, can this be re-instated with the next x.org 
> based update cycle, please?

Other people find the checkerboard annoying.

If you don't like it, look for a patch called "keith-is-the-man" and 
comment it out in the source rpm and rebuild.