Bug#499278: xorg: CTRL-ALT-Fn Doesn't work properly

[Brice Goglin]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+16
> Severity: normal
>
>
> After loging in with gdm, all seems to work fine until I want to
> go to a console via CTRL-ALT-Fn.
>
> Upon doing so, I find that the text console seems to be expanded
> vertically, making the two top lines and the bottom line invisible,
> seeming to be above and below the screen.
>
> Going back with CTRL-ALT-F7, the screen is completely black and the
> power light indicator of the monitor begins to flikker as if the
> computer is turned off or blanked in screensaver mode. Nothing
> I do can make the session active again, except for CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> that will break off the X-seesion and will give me a gdm inlog screen.
>   

Did this problem appear recently? after upgrading from what to what?

Your hardware is pretty recent, it might be good if you could test the
latest upstream git, it could be better. You can either build it
manually (look at http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/10936.html and replace
intel with ati), or just upgrade your X packages to experimental.

Brice