Lost TTYs when starting X server

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Calum <caluml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have an X1650:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon
> X1650 Series] (rev 9e) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0850
>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
>        Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        I/O ports at 8800 [size=256]
>        Memory at cf9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Expansion ROM at cf9c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
>        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650
> Series] (rev 9e)
>        Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 0851
>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32
>        Memory at cf9e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
> and have been using the latest (as of a few days ago) DRI, Mesa, and ATI driver.
>
> 3D works well (2800 FPS in glxgears), Compiz *almost* works (white
> screen), but I have another problem.
>
> When my server boots, all F1-6 TTYs are working fine.
> The moment my X server starts, trying to switch to them just cause the
> monitor to go to sleep after a few moments.
> I can return to F7 fine though.
> I've tried killall -9 agetty to restore them, as well as telinit q
> Nothing seems to recover them.
>
> Which is obviously a pain :)
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Does this patch help?

Alex
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