Xorg-7.3_1 + Radeon XPress 200M + VT switch = white screen?

[Robert Noland]

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 the 
> 200M is one of those finicky IGP "cards" unsupported by DRI) but all attempts 
> to get VT switching to result in anything but a polar bear in a snowstorm 
> viewed through bed linen have proved futile. Typed commands into this white 
> wonderland work (I can login and shut the machine down).
> 
> It's not a major issue as X works fine and I can, at a push, ssh into the box 
> if I really need to. If X doesn't start for whatever reason, the console is 
> fine. I did have VESA in the kernel, which I removed. Still the same result.
> 
> 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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