vtty screen resolution / font trouble

[das]

hallo ajax, thanks for the response. after thinking
about it (and trying f7t4 fresh) i have two comments:

1) this is pretty serious as vtty's are often handy to
kill off procs in X that lock up the server.

2) during boot we can go from X to vtty showing boot
details with that graphical border just fine so it
should be possible - right ?

das

--- Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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