Bug#253088: VT text display gets mangled with Radeon 9200 dualhead setup
According to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:07:42AM +0300, Heikki Kantola wrote:
> > I just noticed that the more recent XFree86 version seem to somehow
> > interfere the VT text consoles on my Radeon 9200 dualhead setup: VTs
> > are now unusable as text is oddly striped and it looks like the texts
> > for both monitors are shown in one on both heads. When booting and
> > shutting down the system the texts on VT are displayed fine on both
> > monitors, so I believe this is problem with X. Earlier this same setup
> > also worked ok. I'm using gdm (Debian package version 2.4.4.7-3) to
> > start X if that matters.
>
> So the problem is that VTs are corrupt, but only while the X server is
> running?
>
> Do the VTs correct themselves once the X server exits?
If you shut down X from the VT running it, yes the corrupted VTs get
restored to the original state, but if you do this from one of the
broken text VTs, there is no change.
> I'm guessing this is the case since you say the problem goes away at
> shutdown.
Ps. apologies for slightly slow response.
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