Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (51 mails)

[Jesse Yan <taqois@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/8/10, Philippe De Muyter <phdm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:50:27PM +1200, Jesse Yan wrote:
>  > Ah - the automatic configuration of the X server. If that's the case,
>  > you will need to create a new xorg.conf to force some settings for X,
>  > since the default settings aren't working so well for you. Just put:
>  >
>  > Section "Device"
>  >     Driver "radeonhd"
>  >     Option "AccelMethod" "none"
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  > into the new xorg.conf, and try starting X again.
>
> That does not solve the VT switch problem :(
>
>  Philippe

I don't think I can help any further - this is beyond my knowledge. :(
I have had similar problems in the past as well (starting X from text
mode in Slackware and quitting back) - but I was luckier than you:
sometimes it would quit correctly and give me the console, but it
varied a lot basically. It might be something to do with X not
clearing the graphics buffer properly upon quitting, but this is pure
guessing on my part.

As a workaround, you could configure openSUSE to boot directly into
text mode: it would involve adding a new boot entry to GRUB with the
default settings, but with a runlevel appended to the end of the
"kernel" entry in menu.lst (you'll need to check /etc/inittab for the
text mode runlevel - it changes depending on the distro).

Hope that helps,

Jesse
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