Bug 245356 - Using virtual terminals causes unusable screens
Summary: Using virtual terminals causes unusable screens
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-server
Version: 5.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-22 16:22 UTC by Mike Tremaine
Modified: 2010-05-03 15:13 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-03 15:02:25 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg.conf file (824 bytes, text/plain)
2007-09-07 18:10 UTC, Mike Tremaine
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log during test with no xorfg.conf file (165.32 KB, text/plain)
2007-09-07 18:11 UTC, Mike Tremaine
no flags Details
Xorg.1.log from test with no xorg.conf on virtual terminal (135.43 KB, text/plain)
2007-09-07 18:12 UTC, Mike Tremaine
no flags Details

Description Mike Tremaine 2007-06-22 16:22:25 UTC
Description of problem: Using virtual terminals causes X windows to be unsusable. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 02)

[xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.2.el5, kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5]

How reproducible:
Start a virtual terminal. [Allow GDM to localhost]


Steps to Reproduce:
1. X :1 -query localhost
2. Switch back to first terminal [ctrl-Alt-F7]
3.
  
Actual results:
White screen. Switching back to F8 gets a solid blue screen.

Expected results:
Usuable virtual consoles

Additional info:
Have read and understood release note about greyscale rendering. Have not edited
 fonts. [Release note -

#

Logging in remotely to a Gnome desktop via gdm may cause several display issues.
The login screen may hang, displaying an unusable empty screen.

To prevent this from occurring, do not change the default font rendering setting
of grayscale. If the default font rendering setting has been edited and you
encounter this problem, run the following command:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source) --set
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing --type string grayscale

]

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2007-06-27 16:18:03 UTC
xorg-x11 is not correct component for RHEL5.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2007-09-07 15:05:00 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided
above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful
in our diagnosis of this issue.

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.


Comment 3 Mike Tremaine 2007-09-07 18:10:52 UTC
Created attachment 190261 [details]
xorg.conf file

[mgt@dwarfstar ~]$ uname -a
Linux dwarfstar.stellarcore.net 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 07:06:45
EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Comment 4 Mike Tremaine 2007-09-07 18:11:54 UTC
Created attachment 190271 [details]
Xorg.0.log during test with no xorfg.conf file

Comment 5 Mike Tremaine 2007-09-07 18:12:30 UTC
Created attachment 190281 [details]
Xorg.1.log from test with no xorg.conf on virtual terminal

Comment 6 Mike Tremaine 2007-09-07 18:17:19 UTC
I have submitted the attachments as requested and conducted the test of Xorg
with no xorg.conf file in place. The issue is still there although in this case
it took 3 terminal changes to cause the bug. I booted into init 5 and logged in.
I then changed to text terminal ala Crtl-Alt-F1 and started another session with
the command X :1 -query localhost. Once another graphics terminal started up I
logged  into that as well. Then with a Ctrl-ALT-F7 and changed to the original
window movede around, CTRL-Alt-F8 to return to new terminal everything was fine.
Then I went to CTRL-ALT-F1 and when I returned to CTRL-ALT-F7 the ternminal
became unstable.

-Mike 

Comment 7 Mike Tremaine 2007-10-08 03:31:10 UTC
I was doing so further fiddling with my xorg.conf and can confirm that the issue
seems to be in the i810 driver. When I switch to vesa the issue goes away.

-Mike

Comment 8 Mike Tremaine 2007-10-09 02:14:30 UTC
Some more comments. 

I updated the motherboard BIOS [and therefor the video BIOS] was at the lastest
greatest rev. [1707 in this case]. No effect.

I grabbed the i810 package from the Fedora 7 tree [
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.0.0-4.fc7.src.rpm ] and with minimal hacking I was able to
build and install that. No effect the problem still exists.

-Mike


Comment 9 seventhguardian 2009-10-16 21:40:46 UTC
Two years have passed now. Is this problem still present? Thanks.

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2010-05-03 15:02:25 UTC
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

Comment 11 Mike Tremaine 2010-05-03 15:13:55 UTC
I honestly have no idea if this is still the case. It was 2 years before this was even commented on so I guess I was out in the wilderness alone with this problem. I ended up having to use Xnest for my needs and eventually changed desktops [Mac Mini OSX]. I think I provided sufficient information with the original bug report that the Intel chipset had issues with the released X server driver and testing it was pretty straight forward. Hopefully it was fixed in later releases.

-Mike


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