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Bug 450748 - Screen is garbled when switching to terminal from X
Summary: Screen is garbled when switching to terminal from X
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 498457
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Airlie
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-10 19:58 UTC by David Rees
Modified: 2018-04-11 10:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-06-30 09:05:04 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg.conf (deleted)
2008-06-10 19:59 UTC, David Rees 		no flags Details
Xorg.0.log from attached xorg.conf (deleted)
2008-06-10 20:00 UTC, David Rees 		no flags Details
Xorg.0.log with no xorg.conf (deleted)
2008-06-10 20:04 UTC, David Rees 		no flags Details
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Description David Rees 2008-06-10 19:58:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
When switching from X to a plain text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1), instead of seeing
the login prompt as expected, I am presented with a bunch of random vertical
lines - nothing is visible. I can switch back to X (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and everything
is normal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-17.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into run level 5
2. Switch to VT1 - Ctrl-Alt-F1
  
Actual results:
Garbled screen with lots of vertical lines, no readable output.

Expected results:
Login prompt.

Additional info:
This machine is a Dell Vostro 1000. Here is the display info from lspci -v.

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress
1100 IGP] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 022a
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10
	Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
	Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Kernel modules: radeonfb

I will also attach the current xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log and another log without a
xorg.conf.
Comment 1 David Rees 2008-06-10 19:59:42 UTC 
Created attachment 308856 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 2 David Rees 2008-06-10 20:00:29 UTC 
Created attachment 308857 [details]
Xorg.0.log from attached xorg.conf
Comment 3 David Rees 2008-06-10 20:04:01 UTC 
Created attachment 308858 [details]
Xorg.0.log with no xorg.conf
Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 01:31:57 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 9.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained.  At that time
this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
'version' of '9'.

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Comment 5 David Rees 2009-06-11 20:30:32 UTC 
Just tested on F11 with the same results.
Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-30 09:05:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498457 ***
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