Description of problem: On my laptop (Asus M6R, ATi Radeon Mobility 9100IGP) switching to the text console and back works only until I restart the X server. After the X server restart, the Ctrl-Alt-F<n> shows only slightly garbled screen contents from the X session, not the text console. The text console is apparently active, though: I have been able to type in "root" and the password, and the new console session has been visible in the "w" command output. Alt-F8 switches back to the graphics session, which works without problem. My graphics card is the following (according to lspci): 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-14.fc9.i386 How reproducible: 100 % Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the system to the runlevel 5. 2. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the text console, Alt-F8 or whatever to get back to the X session. 3. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (or log in and log out) to restart the X server. 4. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the text console. Actual results: The text console is visible in step 2, garbled screen in graphics mode is displayed in step 4. Expected results: The text console should be visible both in step 2 and step 4. Additional info: In fully updated Fedora 8 as of maybe two weeks ago it worked correctly. I will attach my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
Created attachment 306363 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 306364 [details] xorg.conf
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The bug is not present in fully updated F10, as far as I can test it.
Glad to hear it! Closing then.