Oh, I forgot to inform the XFree86 release. I'm running XFree86 4.3 here 
(didn't test with the latest CVS version yet).

Lucas


On Tuesday 20 January 2004 20:10, Lucas Correia Villa Real wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem when I boot linux (2.4.x and 2.6.x) with video=atyfb and
> using the XFree86 'ati' video driver: whenever I switch to any VT console
> from X (tty1, tty2, ...), a lot of green blocks appear blinking on the
> screen, and then the console sessions become unusable (it's ok to switch
> back to X).
>
> When booting with vesafb these green blocks doesn't appear when switching
> back into a VT, but a blank screen appears instead. Does anyone have an
> idea on where should I go to try to fix this issue (linux' vesafb + atyfb
> or XFree86)?
>
> I don't know if this is related to the XFree86' ati driver or to the
> atyfb/vesafb kernel driver, but any help will be kindly appreciated.
>
> This is how 'lspci' identifies my video card:
>
> 02:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB
> [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]
>         Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
>         Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
>         Memory at eb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Expansion ROM at ee7c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
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