FC4 Test 1 and Matrox G550 (no text consoles)

Roland Käser roli at israel-jugendtag.ch
Wed Mar 23 13:03:41 UTC 2005


Hello

I've searched in bugzilla but could not find any bug description related 
to. Sorry not searched good enough.

Roland

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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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