Control-Alt-Fn Problem - REPOST

[John Austin]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:03 +0200, Kugler Erwin (VTG) wrote:
> Same problem here when switching to Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6].
> 
> Black screen with green borders. Login works but no text to see.
> 
> Card: Matrox G200
> Monitor: Nokia 447Xav (CRT)
> CPU: Pentium 3
> 
> Gnome works fine.
> 
> 
> Am 2005-04-04 5:40 PM schrieb "John Austin" unter <ja at jaa.org.uk>:
> 
>  
> > However Cont-Alt-Fn to switch to a dumb virtual terminal
> > causes the graphics to fail.
> > The screen/keyboard is active and you can log in blind,
> > mingetty running OK, but not very useful with nothing to see.
> > 
> > Suspect that the graphics resolution/scan rates not supported by LCD
> > monitor but not certain.  Seems odd as...
> > 
> > The main disk of the machine runs FC3 x86-64 with no such problems
> > Graphics card is very standard Matrox G550
> > Monitor Iiyama AS4314UT
> 
Hi
Glad I'm not alone !!!!
I have submitted a buzilla no 153729
Any additional info you add there might be helpful

We are both using Matrox graphics cards !

Cheers
john