Re: black screen on startx exit from native modes back to xga on vttys

Felix Miata composed on 2015-04-17 06:31 (UTC-0400):

> gfxchps involved:
> radeon rv200
> NVidia NV11

> Bugs filed and mailing list threads, all unhelpful:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096487
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15662
> https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2014-09/msg00218.html
> https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2015-02/msg00384.html
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2015-March/057252.html
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2015-April/057314.html
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030752.html

> Newest appearance of the problem is on Tumbleweed, where it only started very
> recently, compared to a year ago in Rawhide.

> Typical modes used in Xorg are 1600x1200 and 1440x900, while in most cases
> vttys are supposed to be 1024x768, and without Plymouth from cmdline
> inclusion of video=1024x768@60. Could this be a KMS defect?

Ping. Still happening with kernel 4.0.1, ATI driver 7.5.0, X server 1.17.1
(Tumbleweed; rv200; host gx27b).
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