Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 436635
Do -NOT- drop to textmode login when shifting ctrl-alt-f1, etc.
Last modified: 2009-01-09 02:42:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-1.fc8 installed on a notebook HP-c6715b Fedora 8 installed at the same time on a server with an nv-display driver, and when login, shifting from default ( ctrl-alt-f7) to any other, say ctrl-alt-f1, you are dropped to textmode login screen, as expected. On the notebook with the driver listed at top, you only have a blank graphical screen. No login, nothing. If it is gdm that doesn't work, or if the driver listed at top doesn't shut down, - is uncertain. (newbie in reporting bugs ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.20.3-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. you need this hardware, as it worked on the server install 2. press ctrl-alt-f1 or other function keys. 3. ( pressing ctrl-alt-f7 brings you back to your x-session ) Actual Results: Blank graphical screen with nothing happening, expect you may go back to you x-session as described in point 3. Expected Results: It should drop you into text mode, supply you with a login Additional info:
the mouse pointer doesn't work after pressing ctrl-alt-f1, right? It's a fairly common X driver bug where pressing ctrl-alt-f1 doesn't correctly restore text mode.
That is correct. ( An error: Summary should read - Do NOT drop to textmode...) Question: - you think this should have been filed against the xorg-drv package ? If that is so, please feel free to do such correction if possible.
can you attach and xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this system?
Created attachment 306330 [details] current xorg.conf
Created attachment 306331 [details] current Xorg.0.log
- Missed to notice what/when and upgrade took place that seem to have fixed this problem. - Checked installed packages, current: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-4.fc8.x86_64 - The hardware is a Radeon-X1250, checked info from xorg-team@lists.x.org However, it does not tolerate movie applications. Not responding to anything but power-off. This may also happen after some time of usage, using ordinary programs. No clue of the reason. ( found similar stories at Xorg, etc ) In some cases an unexplained high activity of disk usage may force one to shut-down in this way, which doesn't leave any answers of possible cause. Used system-monitor, top, etc. - but they freeze up as well. ( Perhaps related to memory/swap ? may happen using Firefox, which seem to have come up with several problems recently ) In closing: It does drop to textmode now, but there seem to be something more with the driver.
Added note: I am aware that Fedora have excluded some movie/sound formats, but the programs should behave, not crash the whole screen, and not freeze up the computer. I don't have hardware that run Fedora 8, so .. I have no idea what is working on a regular machine.
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