[Bug 15249] Screen is corrupted when switching from X to the console

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15249





--- Comment #8 from Nicola Ricciarelli <ricciare at gmail.com>  2008-05-15 14:51:02 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I have similar problems using an ATI M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) on a Lenovo
> T60 and with a FireGL V5250 on a Lenovo T60p.
> 
> I'm using X.Org X Server 1.4.0 and xf86-video-ati-6.8.0.
> 
> When using a vesa framebuffer text console (vga=791) the screen of the text
> console gets corrupted as soon as Xorg server has started. That's pretty much
> the original bug report here.
> 
> Additional to that I experience also problems with 'vga=0' boot parameter - the
> text console has very strange and mostly unreadable colors after switching back
> from the running Xorg server to any text console.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix that?
> 
> I would like to reopen the bug since the current behavior is not very
> satisfying ...
> 

I've had your same problem and solved it not removing the vga=xxx    but using
a lower number of colors.   I've tested that removing the vga=xxx from
lilo.conf it works great, and than I've tested to use more colours, in my case
I've tested to use a 1024x768 resolution with 256 colours    ... it's  
vga=773. if you test it you'll see that you won't have problems.
If you use also 640x480 resolution with 32k colours you have the same problems.
I've tested all options: the vga=xxx working good are the ones using just 256
colours, or the not usage of vga=xxx. All others create problems.


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