[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 671] New: Display corruption on exit

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           Summary: Display corruption on exit
           Product: xorg
           Version: 6.7.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Driver/Via
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mutualaid at linuxmail.org


Using the VIA display driver with XOrg 6.7.0, it is impossible to cleanly exit
the X environment. After exiting using any graphical environment (GNOME, Window
Maker, plain X with an xterm, etc) the X server terminates normally but instead
of returning to the normal console the display becomes severely corrupted: a
snowy, unreadable display that requires a reboot to fix. The only way I can exit
X is to switch to a console VT while X is running and issue a "kill $(pidof X)".

This display corruption happens any time the X server dies while in control of
the display (whether it crashes abnormally or exits cleanly).

My chipset is VIA KM400 onboard video on an ASUS A7V8X-MX motherboard. I'm using
a VESA framebuffer console (1024x768x16bpp) with kernel 2.6.5 on a Gentoo system
(non-bootsplash).   
   
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