diff -up xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1/src/fbdev.c.orig xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1/src/fbdev.c
--- xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1/src/fbdev.c.orig	2009-07-28 15:20:10.000000000 +1000
+++ xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.1/src/fbdev.c	2010-12-02 17:09:09.859998634 +1000
@@ -680,6 +680,8 @@ FBDevScreenInit(int scrnIndex, ScreenPtr
 	       pScrn->offset.red,pScrn->offset.green,pScrn->offset.blue);
 #endif
 
+	pScreen->canDoBGNoneRoot = 1;
+
 	if (NULL == (fPtr->fbmem = fbdevHWMapVidmem(pScrn))) {
 	        xf86DrvMsg(scrnIndex,X_ERROR,"mapping of video memory"
 			   " failed\n");