On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 18:27:16 -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:31:05PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 14:32:59 -0400, John Flinchbaugh wrote: > > > GDM starts, I can login once, but if I try to switch VTs, It blacks > > > the screen competely and doesn't come back, even upon trying to > > > switch back to VT 7. > > > > > > Logging out of the session or trying to start a new X session > > > corrupts the display. > > > > > > This broke recently -- in th past week or so. > > > > > Do you get this when using KMS? > > With KMS (for Radeon) enabled by default, I can logout and get a > working login screen (GDM), and I can start a new session fine, but > trying to switch to VT 1 no longer switches video modes and just leaves > the old X screen visible, but unresponsive until I switch back (at > which point, X is still working). > > Enabling KMS is a *little* better as I can still function graphically. > Why can't it get back to a console mode?
Did you configure your kernel with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y? Cheers, Julien
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