screen corruption when switching to TTYs

solarflow99 solarflow99 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 10:54:55 UTC 2009


the only time i've had this happen is when the the screen type or video is
set wrong, also if I make a change to those settings without rebooting.


On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>wrote:

> Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > I have a laptop with nvidia card (8600M GT (rev a1)) where I just
> > installed F11 x86_64.
> > I've added vga=0x369 to /boot/grub/grub.conf (that's 1860x1050, native
> > resolution).
> > The system boots up without incidents.
> >
> > While in X, I try to switch to TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2, for instance). Instead
> > of a tty, I see a corrupted image of the desktop - there are diagonal
> > lines and everything is mangled beyond recognition, but the colors kind
> > of match the desktop content.
> > If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, it goes back to the desktop without any visual
> > glitches.
> >
> > Before I set the vga kernel param, switching worked perfectly. Of
> > course, the resolution was very low, so I don't want to go back to that
> > if possible.
> >
> > Anyone have the same problem? What can I do about it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> *bump*
>
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