Bug 541

Summary:	Switch from X/radeon to VC gives multiple shrunken screens and distorted colors
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	x11-driver-video-ati	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frank Griffin 2011-03-25 01:40:00 CET

Using the free radeon (not radeonhd) driver in current cauldron, as you must with X 1.10 at the moment, using CTRL-ALT-Fn to switch from a graphical desktop to a VC results in multiple shrunken VC images arranged horizontally across the top of the screen (3 on my laptop, 5 on my desktop).  The font is so small as to be barely readable, and rather than black and white, the prompts are in green and the typed text is highlighted white.

Oddly enough, this doesn't happen from the initial gdm login screen.  If you haven't yet logged into a desktop, switching to a VC works normally.  However, if you login to GNOME and then logout, switching to a VC from the gdm panel exhibits the problem.  The problem also occurs if you logout from the desktop and then use the GUI shutdown/restart from the gdm panel.  The mageia background appears in multiple shrunken screens across the top, but the background of these screens is magenta rather than blue-gray.

You can actually use the shrunken VCs, provided you don't need to read the output of commands.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Ahmad Samir 2011-04-08 01:14:19 CEST

CC: (none) => tmb
Source RPM: radeon => x11-driver-video-ati

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2011-04-08 15:41:32 CEST

Could you attach a screenshot?
And report also at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2011-09-25 16:43:55 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you attach a screenshot?
> And report also at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ ?

No screenshot received
No bugreport found (I searched for "ALL free radeon driver ati")

So closing this bug

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => m.van.waes
Resolution: (none) => INVALID