Bug 447892

Summary: Text console only until first X server restart
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2008-05-22 11:28:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
On my laptop (Asus M6R, ATi Radeon Mobility 9100IGP) switching to the text
console and back works only until I restart the X server. After the X server
restart, the Ctrl-Alt-F<n> shows only slightly garbled screen contents from the
X session, not the text console. The text console is apparently active, though:
I have been able to type in "root" and the password, and the new console session
has been visible in the "w" command output. Alt-F8 switches back to the graphics
session, which works without problem. My graphics card is the following
(according to lspci):

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon
Mobility 9100IGP]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-14.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
100 %

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the system to the runlevel 5.
2. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the text console, Alt-F8 or whatever to get
back to the X session.
3. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (or log in and log out) to restart the X server.
4. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the text console.
  
Actual results:
The text console is visible in step 2, garbled screen in graphics mode is
displayed in step 4.

Expected results:
The text console should be visible both in step 2 and step 4.

Additional info:
In fully updated Fedora 8 as of maybe two weeks ago it worked correctly.
I will attach my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
Comment 1 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2008-05-22 11:29:21 UTC 
Created attachment 306363 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 2 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2008-05-22 11:30:00 UTC 
Created attachment 306364 [details]
xorg.conf
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Comment 4 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2009-06-19 10:41:05 UTC 
The bug is not present in fully updated F10, as far as I can test it.
Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-19 14:40:17 UTC 
Glad to hear it! Closing then.