Description of problem: I'm running FC7 on a HP NC6000 laptop with an "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" built-in graphics card with xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-4.fc7 The laptop/gfx card allows me to attach an external monitor and as such I'm now running Xorg with Dual-Screen: Screen 1 is the internal flat panel (1024x768), screen 2 is the external monitor (1600x1200). It works pretty well. The only problem I have is, is that if I run this dual-screen configuration, then switching to text mode with Control-Alt-F1 is possible, but the screen stays black (i.e. it seems it switches to the text mode, but does not show any characters). When I pull out the laptop of the bay, and run Xorg in signle-screen-mode, then switching to text mode does work.
Created attachment 227741 [details] Xorg log file incl. traces from switching to text mode.
One additional note: If I switched to text mode, the screen is black. Then, when I press Control-Alt-F7 again to switch back to the graphical X screen, I can see the text console characters (basically the fedora login-prompt) for half a second before it switches to the graphical mode. It seems, that some registers in the radeon driver haven't been correctly initialized in this dual-screen configuration for text mode.
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