Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:11:55 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg-7.3_1 + Radeon XPress 200M + VT switch = white screen? Message-ID: <200711041711.55913.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1194051573.52251.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> References: <200711022337.10472.matt@chronos.org.uk> <1194051573.52251.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com>
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First off, thanks to all that replied. I think Robert's post comes closest to defining the problem. On Saturday 03 Nov 2007, Robert Noland wrote: > I'll suggest that this is a problem with the mode setting in the current > driver. I also experience lockups, or screen corruption when switching > back to VT with the released driver. The driver from git seems to have > already fixed this. Thanks, Robert. As long as it's a known issue I'll wait for an update to the xf86-video-ati port. As an aside, this isn't just the usual lines, corrupt screen, fade to grey, close the lid, switch VTs a few times and it goes type VT switching problem. I've had this on this machine before, and switching back to X and then back to the console once or twice usually forces it to behave itself. This is a pure, honest-to-goodness white screen with no other artifacts which no amount of switching back and to makes a difference to. It remains right up to shutdown. In other words, once X has started, the console never displays a character again until reboot. -- Matt Dawson. matt@chronos.org.uk MTD15-RIPE OpenNIC M_D9 MD51-6BONE
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