Bug 457647

Summary: switching between X and VTs with KVM shows VTs dim and poor contrast
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John McBride <skunkworx>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: xgl-maint
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Fixed In Version: F9 last updates Doc Type: Bug Fix
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machine 1 : dell 1950 lspci output
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machine 1 : dell 1950 xorg log
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machine 2 : dell 1425 lspci output
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machine 2 : dell 1425 xorg log none

Description John McBride 2008-08-02 10:31:46 UTC 
Description of problem:
Systems attached to kvm (keyboard-video-mouse) have incorrect contrast on
virtual terminals.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702

How reproducible:
Boot F9 into runlevel 5. Use ctrl-atl-Fn to switch to a virtual terminal. The
virtual terminal is extremely dim.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot F9 into runlevel 5
2.Use ctrl-atl-Fn to switch to a virtual terminal
3.The virtual terminal is extremely dim
  
Actual results:
VTs are difficult to read

Expected results:
VTs have good contrast, which is the case if F9 is started in runlevel 3.

Additional info:
This may be hardware specific. The KVMs are are brand "Kontron", the machines
are Dell 1425 and Dell 1950, both of which use the radeon driver.

I plan on differentiating the KVM brand and video driver next week and posting
more information at that time.
Comment 1 John McBride 2008-08-06 03:09:58 UTC 
Created attachment 313518 [details]
machine 1 : dell 1950 lspci output
Comment 2 John McBride 2008-08-06 03:11:09 UTC 
Created attachment 313519 [details]
machine 1 : dell 1950 xorg log
Comment 3 John McBride 2008-08-06 03:11:55 UTC 
Created attachment 313520 [details]
machine 2 : dell 1425 lspci output
Comment 4 John McBride 2008-08-06 03:12:27 UTC 
Created attachment 313521 [details]
machine 2 : dell 1425 xorg log
Comment 5 John McBride 2008-08-06 03:14:32 UTC 
Two blades using ATI/RADEON chipsets show the problem. Other machines running F9, and attached to the same kontron KVM, do not have the problem.
Comment 6 John McBride 2008-10-16 03:48:11 UTC 
Something in recent yum updates fixed this problem for both machines. I recommend closure.