On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Bill Davidsendavidsen@tmr.com wrote:

Alain Spineux wrote:

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Hi

when pressing CTRL-ALTF-F2 to switch to text console, the screen stay in graphic mode, only the mouse cursor disappears. I can blindly login, type some command; see the hard disk light blink at each command, then go back using ALT-F1 and see I logged in on tty2. But switching between tty1 an tty2 never change my display.

I have a Laptop Compaq Evo N610c with a ATI RADEON Mobility M7. It was working fine with FC8.

Any idea?

By any chance are you doing this because your X session has stopped responding? The X server may have died, possibly due to driver issues. You don't say what release and kernel you run, there have been some recent FC11 upgrades which seem to help on other hardware.

Yes and no ! Sometime because after a hibernate my display looks like "encrypted", (but I can still guess my cursor and start programs) and sometime I like the text console to work.

I will start a yum update to see.

Thanks

You can do a ps command with X working and not working to see if the server has died. Someone can probably tell you how to restart it (other than reboot), my method makes people cringe and I won't share it, or even admit I do it. :-(

A possibility, since you are inviting guesses by lack of detail in the question.

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More info ...

From inside my X session or from "blind" text console, I can run

# startx -- :3 and then switch to CTRL-ALT-F7 and back to CTRLALT-F1 without problem, it works

But text console dont display anything

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Alain Spineuxaspineux@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

when pressing CTRL-ALTF-F2 to switch to text console, the screen stay in graphic mode, only the mouse cursor disappears. I can blindly login, type some command; see the hard disk light blink at each command, then go back using ALT-F1 and see I logged in on tty2. But switching between tty1 an tty2 never change my display.

I have a Laptop Compaq Evo N610c with a ATI RADEON Mobility M7. It was working fine with FC8.

Any idea ?

-- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you