Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3624] New: radeon drivers don't handle unclean X.org exits properly, screwing up resolution settings

Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3624] New: radeon drivers don't handle unclean X.org exits properly, screwing up resolution settings

[Andrew Morton]

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:32:08 -0700
From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org
Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3624] New: radeon drivers don't handle unclean X.org exits properly, screwing up resolution settings


http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3624

           Summary: radeon drivers don't handle unclean X.org exits
                    properly, screwing up resolution settings
    Kernel Version: 2.6.9
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
             Owner: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
         Submitter: luke-jr+linuxbugs@utopios.org


Distribution: Gentoo 
Hardware Environment: 
  CPU: Athlon64 3200+ 
  Motherboard: Asus K8V SE 
  Video Card: ATi Radeon 9200 SE 
Software Environment: 
  Linux 2.6.9 
  X.org 6.8.1 
Problem Description: radeon drivers don't handle unclean X.org exits properly, 
screwing up resolution settings 
 
Steps to reproduce (a): 
  1. Take a working X.org configuration 
  2. Change the pointer device to some non-existant /dev item 
  3. Attempt to start X 
  4. Your display is gone 
 
Steps to reproduce (b): 
  1. Take a working X.org configuration 
  2. Start X 
  3. Crash X 
  4. Your console VTs are the wrong resolution and thus do not display 
properly

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