When using the radeon driver, ending the display session in any way (killing the display manager, attempting to enter a tty, shutting down the computer) causes a very strange effect which I can only describe as a slow melting into white from the edges of the screen, accompanied by a freezing of the actual system itself. The only way I've found to end this is to do a hard power off by holding the power switch to the machine. This is with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics card.
Are you using KMS? VT switch is not currently supported on evergreen with UMS.
No, I've turned KMS off pior to trying this driver as I was aware that it wouldn't function properly.
(In reply to comment #2) > No, I've turned KMS off pior to trying this driver as I was aware that it > wouldn't function properly. KMS supports evergreen cards just fine (support was added in 2.6.34); better than UMS support.
Looks like Dave fixed this in git master: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=abbf73ee990512ac16ca77e8bb23288495e1f9f4
Yes, I installed the driver from git today and it works perfectly now. Thanks a lot to Dave Airlie and all those who work on xf86-video-ati.
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