[Bug 18407] very dark text console on rv280 after VT switch/server exit

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Wed Oct 20 06:08:08 PDT 2010


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18407

--- Comment #20 from Jonathan Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net> 2010-10-20 06:08:06 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #18)
> > First of all, does this issue happen when you switch from X to console? Like
> > ALT+CTRL+F1 in Linux? I believe there is similar operation in *BSD?
> 
> AFAIU:
> 1) ALT+CTRL+F1: quite nice console
> 2) ALT+CTRL+F7: back to X
> 3) ALT+CTRL+Fx: darker console
> 4) ALT+CTRL+Fx: back to X
> 5) ALT+CTRL+Fx: even darker console
> 
> and so on... Is that right

Yes, it happens at every switch from X to console (VT switch or X exit), with
the console getting progressively dimmer each time. `vbetool vbemode set 3`
will restore the normal intensity to the console.

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