Description of problem: I have a Sony Vaio laptop with an Intel i830 video card. gdm/X starts up fine at boot. When I switch to a virtual console, I get a prompt as expected. However, when I attempt to switch back to X, the display locks up, still showing the virtual console, but then the screen turns white, as if it's melting. Luckily the screen does not seem to suffer any permanent effects. I can still Cntl-Alt-Delete in order to restart. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start up in graphical mode. 2. Switch to a virtual terminal (Ctl-Alt-Fn or chvt n, where 1 <= n <=6) 3. Switch back to the X console (Alt-F7 or chvt 7) Actual results: Display locks up, begins to turn white (in a pattern remiscent of melting). Expected results: Display correctly switches back to X console. Additional info: I've tried this with the following kernels (all with the same result): kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 vanilla 2.6.14 + suspend2 patch, with full pre-empt enabled
Created attachment 121041 [details] X11 log file. Note the log file doesn't change between switching away and back to X.
I just tried downgrading the following packages to their FC4 original versions: xorg-x11-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm Lo, now when I switch to the console I get nothing but a blank screen, but I can switch back to X without any problems (which also has the benefit of allowing me to use suspend2 to suspend to disk and resume to X). So, I think this is pretty strong evidence that there is something amiss with the recent versions of xorg-x11 and the i830 drivers.
If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest updates for this Fedora Core release, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "NEEDINFO_REPORTER", and awaiting upstream bug report URL for tracking. Thanks in advance.
Sorry for the long lag, but I have only recently upgraded xorg along with FC5. I have the latest FC5 updates, and the problem is back. I have found a bug which may be the same thing at freedesktop.org: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5795
Thanks, tracking in xorg bugzilla now.