From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751665Ab0JJNvP (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:51:15 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-100.synserver.de ([212.40.180.100]:1057 "HELO smtp-out-100.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750887Ab0JJNvO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:51:14 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 393 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:51:13 EDT X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: markus@trippelsdorf.de X-SynServer-PPID: 21635 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:44:29 +0200 From: Markus Trippelsdorf To: Andi Kleen Cc: airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: REGRESSION 2.6.36: radeon KMS console switch broken Message-ID: <20101010134429.GA1581@arch.trippelsdorf.de> References: <20101010123000.GD8256@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20101010123000.GD8256@basil.fritz.box> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 02:30:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Hi, > > I see a radeon regression here with 2.6.36-rc7. > > I updated a system from 2.6.35 to 2.6.36-rc7. Now I cannot > switch to the text console from the X server anymore; the screen just > keeps displaying the X desktop. Eventually when I switch back > to X things work again. > > The console switching worked in 2.6.35 > (I had occasional GPU hangs in .35, but console switch always worked) > I didn't change the Xserver userland. > > The system has a ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730 running Dual Head. You're using the radeonhd driver, which is not supported and outdated. Try to remove /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.so and start X again... -- »A man who doesn't know he is in prison can never escape.« William S. Burroughs