vtty screen resolution / font trouble

[Adam Jackson]

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