Radeon video corruption when switching to / from VT

[Daniel Kasak]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:35 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Daniel Kasak <dan at entropy.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On my Radeon ( X700 Mobility ), I get a corrupted display about 50% of
> >  the time when switching to / from a VT. When it happens, I'll sometimes
> >  get a coloured ( often green ) display that fades towards white over a
> >  couple of seconds ( very strange effect ), or other times I'll get a
> >  static display with some rectangles and semi-random looking corruption,
> >  in a grey colour.
>
> Sounds like an issue with the LVDS power sequence.  suspend/resume can
> be problematic however.  Is the problem just with suspend/resume or
> any VT switch?

Thanks for the response.

It happens on any VT switch, including cold boot-up ( which makes things
interesting when someone else wants to use my laptop ... ).

Dan