emacs window a solid black block after a distribution upgrade

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ian Bruntlett wrote:

>I'm less pressed for time so I've reported this bug on Launchpad -
>Bug #2027909.
>
>Something might come of it...

It might be hardware acceleration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/z2mrq1/hardware_acceleration_seems_to_be_the_cause_of/

This page suggests that it has to do with full-screen mode and
recommends pressing F11 as a work-around and the emacs -Q command as
a test that shouldn't exhibit the symptom:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/l59tz4/emacs_goes_completely_black_when_its_in/

This page suggests it has something to do with the kernel version and
recommends the emacs -nw command as a work-around:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290466

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Little Girl

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