From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I see minor character corruption in text virtual terminals. It works fine 95% of the time, but sometimes about 20-40 characters on the screen are replaced by other characters in all kinds of strange colors, leaving all other characters unaffected. Whenever I switch back from or kill X, the text terminal is VERY scrambled, sometimes up to 50% screwed up characters and colors. Sometimes the corruption is seemingly random, and other times definite patterns, crop circles and pentagrams can be seen. (Joking about crop circles and pentagrams.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Use any programs in a text virtual terminal, especially programs with color and scrolling. -or- Run X and go back to the terminal. Actual Results: Random character and/or color corruption. -or- Patterns of character and/or color corruption. Expected Results: No screen corruption. Additional info: HP Pavillion n5470 Notebook http://notebooks.hp-at-home.com/products/notebooks/specifications.php? modelNumber=n5470 http://www.douglasstewart.com/n5470.html (very similar notebook) http://www.deater.net/john/PavilionN5430.html
Created attachment 29351 [details] lspci -vv
Harald Hoyer and Mike Harris have reproduced the "switch from X" screen corruption with Voodoo3.
We (Red Hat) should try to fix this before next release.
I no longer have access to this particular laptop, though I think this has been fixed a long time ago. Anyone know?