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Re: Weird behaviour when switching to TTY



On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 04:28, J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> 
> I can work on TTYs without any problem as long as the X server is
> running. If I log in a TTY as root, as soon as I kill gdm (thus, getting
> rid of all my X), the text messes up, and I cannot read it anymore.

This seems to be an X radeon driver bug, it seems to touch chip
registers when it shouldn't. Find the bug, win the prize. ;)

> I am using Radeon as the Framebuffer option in a 2.4.20-ben10 kernel,

fbset -accel on or similar fbset fu should restore the console.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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