Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 45624
closing display on laptop while in X causes virtual terminal display corruption
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: I am running RH on Dell Inspirion 4000 w/ ATI Rage Mobility (M3). If you close the display while in X windows and reopen it, it will mess up the virtual terminal displays. The only fix is to close the display under the virtual terminal and reopen it. It then fixes the virtual terminal display. If you try to switch back to X with the virtual terminal display messed up, it will in turn mess up the X display. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start up X windows. 2. Close the display and reopen it. 3. Try to exit X windows or switch to virtual terminal. Actual Results: The terminal should display correctly. Expected Results: The terminal display is corrupted. You have to close and open the display under the virtual terminal to get it corrected. If you switch back to X without correct the display, both display get messed up. You have to correct the display under the virtual terminal if you want it to work under X. Additional info:
This is most probably related to the Rage 128 VTswitch lockup in bug #65136. Could you do the following test: 1) Make sure DRI is enabled 2) start X 3) Run "lspci -vvn" and look for the line which shows "BusMaster+". The "+" *SHOULD* be there while you're in X. 4) VTswitch out of X and log in to the console as root. 5) Run "lspci -vvn" and look for the BusMaster line again. Is it still BusMaster+, or is it BusMaster- now? If it is BusMaster-, then the bugfix for bug #65136 which is forthcoming will likely fix this one too. Please provide me with this information ASAP so I can make sure the fix applies to this bug too.
Assuming due to lack of response that the problem no longer occurs after testing with the new release. Closing as fixed in rawhide. If the problem persists when using XFree86 4.2.0-72 or higher, or when the next release of Red Hat Linux is out, please reopen the bug report and provide updated details.