FC4 Test 1 and Matrox G550 (no text consoles)

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.