Bug 23623

Summary:	Can't switch to tty - screen goes white/gray/stripy Xpress 200M
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	BeteNoire <therioss>
Component:	Driver/Radeon	Assignee:	xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description BeteNoire 2009-09-01 04:49:20 UTC

I have current Gentoo with such software version installed:
xorg-server is 1.6.3.901
kernel is 2.6.30
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati is 6.12.2-r1

Since I am using open source radeon driver I can't switch to terminal from X.
When I press ctrl+alt+f1 tty doesn't appear, but screen goes bright with some very thin, one pixel, colorful or gray strips, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal.
I am able to go back to X by alt+f7.

I don't use any framebuffer for now, but would be great to have bigger, readable resolution on tty.

Any tips how to fix it would be appreciated.

Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2009-09-01 10:57:20 UTC

KMS should work better in this regard.

Comment 2 BeteNoire 2009-10-14 11:29:39 UTC

No, it doesn't work. In fact it works even worse. Screen goes white just after I click enter in bootloader.

Now I'm testing git version - effect is the same, so please, anyone could help?

Comment 3 Alex Deucher 2010-10-19 17:47:36 UTC

Is this any better with a newer kernel or driver?

Comment 4 BeteNoire 2010-10-19 21:28:01 UTC

I am not using that laptop anymore.

Comment 5 Alex Deucher 2010-10-19 21:29:06 UTC

closing.

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