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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by cesarb on Sunday October 11, 2020 @07:06PM (#24749888)
That reminds me of the spookiest bug I've ever encountered: once, when resuming a Dell laptop from suspend at work, it showed a Windows desktop. Said laptop had been running Linux exclusively for several months (but it had previously been used with Windows). Interacting with the laptop made the expected xscreensaver unlock screen appear, and everything worked normally afterwards. The only explanation I could come up with was that, somehow, a snapshot of the Windows screen had survived intact in a corner of the framebuffer which the Linux driver didn't touch, even after months of power off/on and suspend/resume cycles, and a bizarre driver glitch made it visible in that particular resume cycle.
Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by ateng on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:01AM (#24751529)
The said windows desktop ghost screen didn’t have date time on start menu, did it?
Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by cesarb on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:45AM (#24754831)
If I recall correctly, the Windows XP default was to show only the time, so the date probably wasn't visible.