On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 21:09:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 14:27:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10:47 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > > My console text has the default light gray color - until X is > > > > started. > > > > > > > > When going from X to the console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, the console > > > > foreground color has turned to dark gray, hardly readable on the > > > > black background. > > > > Even after logging out of X, back into the console, the console > > > > text remains dark gray. > > > > Only after restarting the computer, the default light gray text > > > > color has returned. > > > > > > > > This phenomenon started 1 or 2 weeks ago, during a lenny upgrade > > > > involving a large number of files that had 'xorg' in their > > > > names. > > > > > > > > Anyone else having this? > > > > How could X affect the default console text color? > > > > > > Maybe a bug in the video driver screws up the video mode > > > switching. Which xorg video driver are you using? > > > > The R300 driver, videocard is ATI Radeon 9500. > > But now we're moving towards the limits of my knowledge. How do > > I find out if this driver is still used, after the xorg upgrade > > 2 weeks ago? > > Running > > grep '/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > should tell you which driver is loaded. It will probably be > ati_drv.so, which is a "smart" wrapper for all ATI cards. It should > detect that your card needs radeon_drv.so and load that one.
This appears to be the case: $ grep '/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so > > > You could try to downgrade to the previous version or test if the > > > vesa driver leads to the same problem. Indeed, with the vesa driver, the problem disappears. > Both ati_drv.so and radeon_drv.so are in xserver-xorg-video-ati, so > you could try to downgrade to the previous version of that package > (found in your package cache or at snapshot.debian.net). After removing the vesa driver from /etc/X11/xorg.conf I downgraded xserver-xorg-video-ati from 1:6.8.0-1 to 1:6.7.197-1 : # dpkg --force-downgrade -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197-1_i386.deb # aptitude hold xserver-xorg-video-ati and indeed, this appears to be a solution. Now when I notice that a newer version of xserver-xorg-video-ati has moved to testing (which, among other places, I can see at http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati.html - thanks to Kelly Clowers) then I will do an 'aptitude unhold xserver-xorg-video-ati' and the usual 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'. Thanks to you and Kelly for the perfect replies. I found the rest of your suggestions, not mentioned here, to be clarifying as well. I'd like to make clear that I was not whining about having a big problem though. Waiting a few months would be acceptable. It would just be annoying if it would last forever. Regards, Sjoerd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
