FC4 Test 1 and Matrox G550 (no text consoles)
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed Mar 23 12:22:13 UTC 2005
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:53:11 +0100, Roland Käser wrote:
> Hallo
>
> I've installed the FC4 Test 1 on a System with a Matrox G550. The start
> of the XServer causes the unusability of the text consoles. It seems
> that the xorg G550 driver reconfigures the Graphics card on a low level
> so even when the X is terminated (in runlevel 3) the text consoles
> remains unusable. Does anybody have an idea of this behavior?
> I've installed the same distribution on a machine with a ATI card with a
> normal behavior when switching to text consoles or stoping the X (in
> runlevel 3). Has there been some major changes in the xorg Matrox driver?
>
> Roland Kaeser
>
It's in bugzilla.redhat.com already, e.g. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/151252 and,
IIRC, also affects other graphics adapters and chipsets.
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