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