Description of problem: Switching from X to a text-mode virtual terminal and back to VT7 results in a blinking single-color screen on VT7. Re-starting X doesn't help, the only way to restore normal X display is to reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5.10.fc6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ctrl-Alt-F1 2. Alt-F7 Actual results: Blinking blank screen Expected results: Normal X user interface Additional info: Intel DG965WH motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6600 processor.
Adding Option "VBERestore" "true" to xorg.conf seems to fix the problem.
I have the same behavior with Intel DG965SS motherboard and Pentium D 2.8 Ghz. The tip from comment #1 does not work in my case.
Thanks for the bug report and sorry for so late reply to it. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 144533 [details] X server config file
Created attachment 144534 [details] X server log
Created attachment 144535 [details] X server log with hardware autodetection
I confirm the bug. Flickering screen results, when one switch to console and back. "VBERestore" option does not help 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5354 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at 50100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at 40000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 20e0 [size=8] Capabilities: <access denied>
Driver info: xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-10.fc6 $ uname -a Linux node7 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Intel motherboard with integrated graphics, Core 2 Duo E4300
Created attachment 148450 [details] Xorg.0.log with modesetting driver I've played around with it a bit, and the modesetting driver branch ("intel" instead of i810) successfully resets the display and works well when switching bewteen VTs and the X session. This is with xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-11.fc7 (x86_64). Attached is my Xorg.0.log file with this driver instead of i810.
intel driver is the default now for 965 hardware, so marking this one as fixed in rawhide.