On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 04:28, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > I can work on TTYs without any problem as long as the X server is > running. If I log in a TTY as root, as soon as I kill gdm (thus, getting > rid of all my X), the text messes up, and I cannot read it anymore.
This seems to be an X radeon driver bug, it seems to touch chip registers when it shouldn't. Find the bug, win the prize. ;) > I am using Radeon as the Framebuffer option in a 2.4.20-ben10 kernel, fbset -accel on or similar fbset fu should restore the console. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
