SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 7.0
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux.
Therefore some of the informations given in this article may
be outdated or the article may contain stale links.
XFree86: Versions since 3.3.3
Once you disable this option in the BIOS, the "glowing white screen" effect is gone. Then it takes some playing with options like "cyber_shadow" to get the display working. See the XFree86 Release Notes for Trident chipsets at /usr/share/doc/packages/xf86/README.trident for further info. Additionally, you must not use vesafb together with the X server it seems.
Update (8/5/99):
Obviously this phenomenom is also dependent on the BIOS-version of the
Computer. Upgrading the System BIOS to the latest revision has solved
the problem in one reported case (thanks to Martin Kolde for reporting
this). The Option "cyber_shadow" has not been used in this case.