Bug#360096: xserver-xorg: fails to restore text mode properly (VGA console + SVGATextMode)

[Jakub Wilk <ubanus@users.sf.net>]

Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: normal

As far as I remember, this bugs wasn't present in the xorg-x11 
6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 release.

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
<cut>

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"NVidia Riva TNT2"
	Driver		"nv"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"NVidia RIVA TNT2"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x1024"
	EndSubsection
	<cut>
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	<cut>
	InputDevice	"PC Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"GPM Mouse"
EndSection

# lspci -v -s 1:0
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
       Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
       Expansion ROM at d5000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
       Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
       Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

$ dpkg -l svgatextmode | tail -1
ii  svgatextmode   1.9-15         enable higher resolution text modes

$ cat /etc/TextConfig
Chipset "RIVA128"
DefaultMode "128x64@56"

<cut>

HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 40-100

"128x64@56" 61.0 1024 1040 1176 1344 768 770 776 806 -Hsync -Vsync font 8x12

$ echo $COLUMNS x $LINES
128 x 64

$ startx

<...return to VGA console>

$ echo $COLUMNS x $LINES
128 x 33

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.72         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.0.3-1      GCC support library
ii  libxau6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Authentication library
ii  libxdmcp6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  xserver-common            6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 files and utilities common to all 
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-11     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
pn  discover | discover1      <none>         (no description available)
pn  laptop-detect             <none>         (no description available)
pn  mdetect                   <none>         (no description available)
ii  xlibs                     6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
pn  xresprobe                 <none>         (no description available)

--
Jakub Wilk