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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:59:33 -0400
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net>
To:        Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg-7.3_1 + Radeon XPress 200M + VT switch = white screen?
Message-ID:  <1194051573.52251.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com>
In-Reply-To: <200711022337.10472.matt@chronos.org.uk>
References:  <200711022337.10472.matt@chronos.org.uk>

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On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:37 +0000, Matt Dawson wrote:
> As subject, has anyone else come across this? X works fine (sans GL as th=
e=20
> 200M is one of those finicky IGP "cards" unsupported by DRI) but all atte=
mpts=20
> to get VT switching to result in anything but a polar bear in a snowstorm=
=20
> viewed through bed linen have proved futile. Typed commands into this whi=
te=20
> wonderland work (I can login and shut the machine down).
>=20
> It's not a major issue as X works fine and I can, at a push, ssh into the=
 box=20
> if I really need to. If X doesn't start for whatever reason, the console =
is=20
> fine. I did have VESA in the kernel, which I removed. Still the same resu=
lt.
>=20
> Any ideas? A "me too" would be helpful as misery loves company ;-)

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.

robert.


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