From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Just installed FC4 over FC3. Booting in text mode shows, as usual, which modules are being started, etc. Once X starts and the login screen is shown, all terminal (ctrl-alt-f1 to f6) are blank and impossible to use. In fact, when rebooting or turning off the system and x is closed, the "shutting off" messages are not shown in the plain text screen, which stays blank. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start the system 2. start x 3. press ctrl-alt-f1 Actual Results: screen is blank Expected Results: a tty terminal should be shown Additional info:
Same thing here. Starting Fedora at Run Level 3 will display the text login as expected and allow login, however after starting X and then attempting to logout and return to terminal prompt nothing but a blank screen is displayed. It is still possible to type commands, you just have no idea what's going on. For example I logged off Gnome, couldn't see anything on the screen, typed startx again and Gnome loaded back up.
I have seen the blank screen on an Intel 865G. I also saw a different behavior of a blue border with visible text using an Intel 815 video card. Same driver, different card. This seems related to the same cause that messes up the MGA card in a lot worse ways than the Intel. Adding your video card type, xorg.conf file, xorg.0.log file might help the developers track down the problem. Comment above describes runlevel 3 well. runlevel 5 has blank terminals also.
Created attachment 115526 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 115527 [details] xorg.conf
I have an ATI mach64 3d Rage IIC with the ati driver and I'm seeing something slightly different. When you switch to a virtual console the screen is left with whatever was on the X display; hitting return eventually results in the screen sliding to the left on each return.
Created attachment 115533 [details] Xorg config file
Created attachment 115534 [details] Xorg log
i have an ibm thinkpad R50e, with 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) the same thing happens. with FC2 there was no problem. i upgraded to FC4, now as soon as i start X, the text mode is gone. i noticed something else too. if i run startx, two more modules are loaded: [root@Laptop ~]# lsmod i915 19009 1 drm 70101 2 i915 ... when i exit from X, of course i don't see anything on the console, so i logged in through the network, and tried to unload those modules: [root@Laptop ~]# lsmod Module Size Used by i915 19009 0 drm 70101 1 i915 ... [root@Laptop ~]# rmmod i915 [root@Laptop ~]# rmmod drm Segmentation fault [root@Laptop ~]# [root@Laptop ~]# rmmod drm ERROR: Removing 'drm': Device or resource busy [root@Laptop ~]# xorg.conf is the one coming with FC4, i did not alter it in any way.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Intel 845" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection
I have the same problem with an Intel i915 display chip. I thought it might have been the fact that I compiled the latest http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ to get my card working. However it appears others have a similar problem. I noticed this in /var/log/messages: kernel: mtrr: base(0xc0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x834000) boundary Will attach lspci -v
Created attachment 115583 [details] lspci -v Includes details of i915
Similar problems with a matrox card. I see virtual terminals with neon green frames, but no content, no text, no getty.
I replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a with the file from an FC3 intallation on the same computer and replaced the version included in the xorg-x11-6.8.2-37 I renamed the file to libvgahw.a.fromfc3 so I could include it in this report as an atachment. Anyway, my terminals are back after I replaced the file and rebooted the computer. I will attach my message log for today's entries for any useful messages regarding the messed up VT. I do not get the blue border or any wrappingtext with the replacement of the file.
Created attachment 115586 [details] file copied from FC3 working installation The owner of the file should be root:root The name and location should be /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a you must reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. Hopefully the messages will show some useful output. Next attachment. Before and after replacing the file and rebooting.
Created attachment 115587 [details] The attachement Today's Mess should show the processes encountered Hopefully the messages are helpful. I grepped with 16, so hopefully all of todays entries are included.
Reverting /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a works for me & my matrox too. I don't understand why changing a static library would have that affect. *shrug*. But perhaps this will all help someone narrow in on whatever problem was recently introduced.
I have to try with the Intel 865G tomorrow to see if the blank terminal is cured also. The graphics in the GUI are excellent. The blank terminals are in the VT, which confuses my as to why the VT is corrupted and Screen 7 works great still.
Browsing through the messages that I submitted today, I found this entry within the log. I expected at least two entries, since I reboot the computer. Jun 16 19:21:20 cornette-fc4t3 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 I rebooted the machine, so I expected at least another entry. With the grep 16 I caught the previous entry from an earlier date. I get this output from a radeon which I don't see any abnormalities on the machine. cat /var/log/messages |grep VGA Jun 13 06:34:33 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 13 06:34:36 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 13 15:42:38 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 13 15:42:41 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 14 06:23:42 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 14 06:23:45 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 14 15:52:33 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 14 15:52:36 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 14 22:34:05 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 14 22:34:08 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 15 06:35:38 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 15 06:35:41 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 15 17:09:49 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 15 17:09:52 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 16 06:25:29 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 16 06:25:32 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no) Jun 16 17:04:02 cornette-lt kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jun 16 17:04:06 cornette-lt kernel: ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes r om: no post: no)
I tried the libvgahw.a work-around on my 865G system and it works fine-VT's are back!
I wonder what happens if that file is compiled with gcc32 instead of gcc4. I don't know if that's the reason, but that is a difference between FC3 and FC4 (and yes, there are other differences as well - such as a different version of xorg)
I am also seeing this problem on my system which uses an Intel i810 video chipset. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
.. and my terminals are back too :-)
mine too, but now after two or three switches to text and back, i can't do anything in WindowMaker. the menu won't appear, the window decorations all gone, and i can't open another window. i have to restart X (with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace).
I changed the file, but it made no effect
What card type do you have? Did you reboot to see if the file replacement prevented blanking terminals? Reference to the upstream bug report is below. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2991
Same here, in two machines, one with Matrox G200 and old IBM Thinkpad 600 (NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD) For me, workaround was simply disabling rhgb. After that at least T600 works O.K. now (no test w. G200 yet).
I tried removing "rhgb" in GRUB. This made NO difference for me. I still can NOT see text after exiting from X Windows.
Removing rhgb not works for box w. matrox G200 but 100% for T600. But there is diference after disabling rhgb, before screen simply hangs after switch (to virtual terminal), now i see blank screen with green border. Both machines have xorg-x11-6.8.2-37
Changed video card, Ati Rage 128 Pro GL PF works O.K. with rhgb disabled, no VT when using rhgb.
(In reply to comment #16) > Reverting /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a works for me & my matrox too. > > I don't understand why changing a static library would have that affect. > *shrug*. But perhaps this will all help someone narrow in on whatever problem > was recently introduced. It is a dynamiclly loaded X server module, not a static library. The X server modules can be .a, .o, or .so objects. We're tracking the underlying problem in bug #161242 if anyone is interested in CC'ing themselves. Thanks for testing this out, and providing the feedback, as it has shown that whatever the root problem is here, that it is affecting a lot more people than originally anticipated, and seems to be the cause of numerous bugs on various different hardware.
Adding to libvgahw tracker bug #161242.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161242 ***
Same symptoms with Intel 865G; libvgahw.a workaround works for me too.
Thank you very muth !!! :-)) I've a Dell computer with intel 865 video card. And i've been very anxious with the black screens on reboot, CTRL+ALT+Fx (x = 1,2,3, ...) I've replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a with the somme in FC3 installation, and this works and bye black screens !! I'm very happy !! :-)) (In reply to comment #14) > Created an attachment (id=115586) [edit] > file copied from FC3 working installation > > The owner of the file should be root:root > The name and location should be > anxious > > you must reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. > > Hopefully the messages will show some useful output. Next attachment. Before > and after replacing the file and rebooting.