FS#12327 - xorg 5.1.3 + xf86-video-mach64 not allowing to switch to console

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Javier (jevv) - Wednesday, 03 December 2008, 03:16 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 03 December 2008, 08:34 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After the upgrade on xorg-server to 5.3.1 I no longer can switch to console, since the LCD complains with "signal out of rank, 39.9kHz/89Hz".

This was working OK with previous version of xorg-server, it damaged after the recent upgrade to 5.1.3. I'm using the mach64 driver provided by xf86-video-mach64. Removing the kernel module atyfb doesn't help... With or without "UseFB" option commented out the result is the same...

Once I get inot X, I can't get out of it, since any time I want to come back to console all I get is a blank screen with the monitor message. No error shows up anywhere...

Additional info:
* package version(s)
local/xorg-server 1.5.3-2 (xorg)
local/xf86-video-mach64 6.8.0-2 (xorg-video-drivers)
local/mesa 7.2-1

* config and/or log files etc.
I've compressed several configuration files and logs into a tar.bz2 file, see attached tar...

Steps to reproduce:
My box is a piii celeron with 32KB of cache, 512MB of ram. In the tar file you can find more logs about my box. To me it's just a matter of doing "startx" and trying to get to console...
   xorg.bug.tar.bz2 (14 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 03 December 2008, 08:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Javier (jevv) - Wednesday, 03 December 2008, 05:04 GMT
Found the problem. I was booting with vesafb since I was requesting console with 1024x768. That apparently doesn't work now with Xorg. So I had before:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro resume=/dev/sda5 vga=773

Now I have:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro resume=/dev/sda5

Thhis allows me now to change back and forth from X to console, and I can close X now to get back to console... Bad, pretty bad thing is that now I can't use nice font console, since the terminus v12n is not supported. The only one providing a good size is alt-8x8, which looks a bit ugly. The terminus v14b doesn't improve the size respect to v16b, which is too big, :) Well, beyond that, things are back to normal, so I'm closing the bug...

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