Re: X 4.2 & virtual terminals

[Warren Dodge <warren.dodge@akamail.com>]

This one time, at band camp, nate said:
> Mark Copper said:
> > I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card.  Now
> > X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual terminal, (2)
> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop not only kills X but it also kills any further
> > output to the monitor, (3) nothing is printed to the screen after X has
> > been killed during shutdown.

Two things come to mind.
If you've changed your runlevels to login at 4 or 5, you may have to modify 
inittab to allow virtual consoles in runlevels 4 and 5. 
Change lines of this form:
   2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
To this form:
   2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2

Also, if you're using the agpgart module, that could be the cause of the 
trouble. None of the systems I have that use Radeon 7500's can reliably use 
agpgart. One system allows a single return to console mode and back to X, a 
2nd trip to the console will crash everything. The other systems are even 
less tolerant.

HTH,
Warren