[Bug 13200] New: radeon mobilty 9000 card in uninitialized state during VT Switch

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13200

           Summary: radeon mobilty 9000 card in uninitialized state during
                    VT Switch
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: low
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: sean2006 at bridgetek.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Symptom:
    Whenever I switch to a vt terminal my display goes white.  The display
appears uninitialized as the color slowly fades, starting in the middle, until
the whole screen is white.  When I switch back to the X server everything is
fine and the display comes back, until I do a vt switch again.  The actual
terminals are responsive so I can login blind and it works.

Workaround:
  I found this by chance.  If I use the radeontool command and do a 
      sudo radeontool light off
      sudo radeontool light on
    the display comes back and everything looks fine.  So now, before I need to
switch to a terminal I run this in an X term, then switch:
      sleep 5 && sudo radeontool light off && sleep 5 && sudo radoentool light
on

    Another workaround I found is that if I plug in an external monitor and
direct X on to that, I can do a VT switch without this issue.  The external
monitor goes blank and the console appears on the laptop.

  This started with my gutsy upgrade to xorg 1.3.0.  I have a "ATI Technologies
Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]" running the opensource radeon driver.  

   Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 4.3.0


  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250
[Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)

I've attached my Xorg.0.log file, this includes the logging of two VT switches
(last one starts at line 1247).


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