79138eec1b49cbaca6a16f2bdd8579b5828aeb28 causing black screen

[Joel Feiner]

I'm having the same problem.  Once a compositing manager starts, though, 
everything shows up fine.  Turning off the compositing manager doesn't 
cause anything to disappear.  It's only on startup that it's a problem.

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my test machine (an amd64 laptop with a ATI Radeon XPress 1200M
> chip), the commit in the subjet causes the display to come up black.
> Only the cursor is visible (and changes shape when moved around, which
> confirms that the applications are there).
> 
> Reverting this commit make things work back as usual.
>