Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 477521
Complete font loss after reboot
Last modified: 2009-01-09 18:19:32 EST
Description of problem: Installing xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-62.fc10 on my Sony PCG-GRX670 laptop with an ATI Mobility 7500 video card and then doing a cold restart of the system completely looses all text/font output. Seems to be some sort of firmware loading regression. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-62.fc10 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Driver 2. Power system off, a warm restart will not reproduce this bug. 3. Restart system and once system gets to the graphical login screen all text output will be gone. Everything else seems to work fine but all text is missing from all windows controls and applications etc... Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Here is my smolt info if you need additional information on my hardware UUID: pub_28abaa5d-ce91-4cc2-b3ee-4870a8b6a3bd URL: http://www.smolts.org/client/show?uuid=pub_28abaa5d-ce91-4cc2-b3ee-4870a8b6a3bd
Almost the same problem on an IBM R50 (another ATI M7500) -- I don't have to reboot to reproduce the problem (just restart gdm). I'm pretty sure this is a driver problem as I can go back and forth between the radeon and vesa drivers, and only the vesa driver displays text. I also tried the radeon driver with no extra options (in my xorg.conf) without success. If anyone reading this wants a workaround, reverting back to the version on the liveCD worked for me: $ cd /tmp $ wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-54.fc10.i386.rpm $ su # yum remove xorg-x11-drv-ati # yum localinstall xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-54.fc10.i386.rpm # reboot
Me too. On an IBM T30 laptop with ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]. The new driver renders all text in X invisible (except in xterm). Restoring the distribution version, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-54.fc10.i386, fixed it. This is a big time blunder...
Updating to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.i386 fixed the issue for me. See: <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11780>
Yes, it's fixed for my IBM T30, too. The updated xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.i386 works perfectly. Thank you.
Works good for me as well. Thanks
Thanks for letting us know.