Bug 541 - Switch from X/radeon to VC gives multiple shrunken screens and distorted colors
Summary: Switch from X/radeon to VC gives multiple shrunken screens and distorted colors
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2011-03-25 01:40 CET by Frank Griffin
Modified: 2011-09-25 16:43 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: x11-driver-video-ati
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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.

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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


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