hallo ajax, thanks for the response. after thinking about it (and trying f7t4 fresh) i have two comments: 1) this is pretty serious as vtty's are often handy to kill off procs in X that lock up the server. 2) during boot we can go from X to vtty showing boot details with that graphical border just fine so it should be possible - right ? das --- Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 08:33 -0700, das wrote: > > Hey Fedora Folks, > > > > Machine is IBM/Lenovo T60p - LCD panel has > > 1400x1050 - ATI Mobility FireGL v5250 (all > > correctly detected for X) > > > > (I have this same problem with CentOS-5 so i > > suspect RHEL 5 has the same issue) > > > > f7t3 + updates - init 5 startup is fine and > > resolution is good.... but switching to a vtty > > (e.g., Ctl-Alt-F2) and then not only is the font > > too large but the 24x80 char text display doesn't > > even show all the current lines on the screen. > > > > In other words - fonts and resolution are whacked > > - can't see prompt after 'ls -lR' because it's at > > the bottom of the terminal which is off the > > visible portion of the lcd display. > > > > This problem is also visible at shutdown - so you > > don't see what's currently being stopped / killed > > just whatever has scrolled up into the visible > > region of the lcd display. > > > > would submit bug but don't know the app > > responsible for vtty resolution mess-up.... > > VT switching bugs are usually the X server's fault > (xorg-x11-server). > > Seen this before. Appears to be an ATI VBIOS bug, > haven't traced it > down further because it's unlikely it's fixable. > > - ajax > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list