Kernel or Xorg what is the problem?

[Mike A. Harris]

Scott Talbot wrote:
> Hi list:
> 
> After a weekend of cursing, I got my system up and running this A.M.
> only to be puzzled by the sudden failure of my machine to properly
> display vga modes after X is started.
> 
> My boot param includes the instruction vga=792 so that I get a nice Hi-
> Res screen during boot-up and that works fine until rhgb starts up and
> then I get a blank screen until Gnome starts and then I have a nice
> normal 1280 X 1024 display.  If I do a Ctl-Alt-F1, I get an unreadable
> display at the top of the screen (the balance of the screen still looks
> like my Gnome background) The unreadable display is the console, as I
> can see the cursor and if I then force a reboot with Ctl-Alt-Delete I
> can see that screen scrolling data, I also can move a mouse pointer
> within that area (though it appears as 5 blocks across the screen.
> 
> Well I was just about ready to file a bugzilla, when I tried a reboot to
> an older kernel (2.6.8-1.524) and under that kernel the screen modes
> work as expected. (though I have only the 1 resolution in X)
> 
> So has anyone else seen any of this? I tried to look in
> freedesktop/bugzilla, but found no bug there.

There's no mention at all to what video hardware you are using, so it's 
hard to guess as what could be causing the problem.  If you do suspect 
it to be an X.org bug however, please file a bug in 
http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component.  Be sure to include 
all details, and your X server config file and log file as attachments 
also.  6.8.0 draws near...

HTH