Description of problem: When switching from X to a plain text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1), instead of seeing the login prompt as expected, I am presented with a bunch of random vertical lines - nothing is visible. I can switch back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and everything is normal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-17.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into run level 5 2. Switch to VT1 - Ctrl-Alt-F1 Actual results: Garbled screen with lots of vertical lines, no readable output. Expected results: Login prompt. Additional info: This machine is a Dell Vostro 1000. Here is the display info from lspci -v. 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 022a Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10 Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel modules: radeonfb I will also attach the current xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log and another log without a xorg.conf.
Created attachment 308856 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 308857 [details] Xorg.0.log from attached xorg.conf
Created attachment 308858 [details] Xorg.0.log with no xorg.conf
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Just tested on F11 with the same results.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498457 ***