From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161234AbXBGL5K (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:57:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161237AbXBGL5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:57:09 -0500 Received: from mailgw1.uni-kl.de ([131.246.120.220]:41779 "EHLO mailgw1.uni-kl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161234AbXBGL5I (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:57:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:57:04 +0100 From: Eduard Bloch To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.20 regression] No text console picture after X start Message-ID: <20070207115704.GA4343@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> References: <20070207111953.GA4105@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070207111953.GA4105@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org #include * Eduard Bloch [Wed, Feb 07 2007, 12:19:53PM]: > Hello, > > I have an ATI Radeon X800 GTO card [1], which works "well"[2] with > xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.6.3-2 (Debian Sid). However, after upgrading to > 2.6.20, the console screen is no longer restored after switching the > virtual terminal to first console when X has been started once. > Apparently the keyboard input does work but the picture is frozen at the > last image seen in X and some colors become changed (like on wrong color > pallette mapping). Sorry, was a false alarm. The reason seems to be a problem with the X server which happens to crash frequently, and console is broken only after that happened. Eduard. -- Manch einer ist so überzeugt, er weiß gar nicht mehr wovon.