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If I switch to a virtual terminal from X (ctrl-alt-F1, for example), when I
return to X I get a (text-mode) screen of junk, then a few seconds later X
restarts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  From X, go to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1)
2.  From the virtual terminal, go to X (alt-F8)


Actual Results:  
X crashes, gdm restarts it

Expected Results:  
Return to my X session

From emerge --info:

kevin@lacqui ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r1,
2.6.20-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:50:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r7
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/init.d
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /lib/modules"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_CA"
LC_ALL="en_CA"
LINGUAS="en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz
/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay
/usr/portage/local/layman/custom-kernels /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="16bit 3dnow 3dnowext 3ds 64bit 7zip X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib ace acl
acpi ada addbookmarks admin adns akode alias alisp allegro alsa altenburgcards
amarok amavis amazon amd amr amrr animgif ao aoss aotuv apache2 apm arj arts
artswrappersuid artworkextra asf asm async auctex audacious audiofile autoipd
automount avalon avalon-framework avalon-logkit ax25 bash-completion battery
bbdb bcmath beep berkdb bigpatch binfilter bitmap-fonts bittorrent bl
blender-game bonjour bonusscripts boo bookmarks branding bzip2 c++ c3p0 cairo
cal3d calendar caps catalogs ccache cdaudio cdb cdda cddb cdf cdinstall
cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdsound cegui chardet chipcard chipcard2 chm chroot clamav
clamd cli clisp clock-screen colordiff commons-digester compress contactnotes
contentcache contrib corba cpio cpudetection cpufreq cpulimit cracklib
crosscompile crypt crypto_openssl cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers cvs
cvsgraph daap dbus dbx deprecated devhelp dga dio discard-path discouraged divx
djbfft djvu doc dolby-record-switch doomsday dovecot-sasl dri dssi dtaus dts dv
dvb dvbplayer dvd dvdr dvdread dvi ecc editor eds effects elisp emacs emacs-w3
emboss emovix enca encode epydoc erandom esd evo examples exif extras fam fame
fbsplash ffmpeg fftw finger firefox flac flash flatfile fltk fluidsynth fmod
foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran fping fpx ftp fuse gd gdbm geoip gif gimp
gimpprint gkrellm glep glibc-omitfp glut gmail gmedia gmp gnokii gnome
gnome-print gnutls gocr gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphicsmagick graphviz gs gsm gssapi
gstreamer gtalk gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gtkspell guile gzip gzip-el hal hardenedphp
hash hbci hpn html http httpd ibam ical icecast icon iconv id3 idea ieee1394
ilbc image imagemagick imap imlib inifile inkjar insecure-savers iplsrc ipsec
irc jabber jack jack-tmpfs jai java java5 javamail javascript jce jcs jikes
jimi jingle john jpeg jpeg2k jumpplay junit kcal kde kdecards kdepim keyring
kipi ladcca ladspa lame lash latex lcd lha libcaca libg++ libnotify libsexy
libwww live lm_sensors log4j logrotate lua lzo lzw mad maildir markdown math
matroska max-idx-128 mcal mccp md5 md5sum memlimit mew mhash midi mikmod mime
mimencode ming mixer mjpeg mmap mmkeys mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mono motif
mouse mozbranding mozcalendar mozdevelop mozdom mozilla mozsvg mp3 mp4 mp4live
mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msdav msn msnextras mtp multiuser musepack music musicbrainz
mysql nas ncurses netbeans nethack netjack network new-login nfs nls nntp
normalizemime nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav objc objc++ objc-gc ocaml ocrad
octave odbc ode odk offensive office ofx ogg oggvorbis ole on-the-fly-crypt
openal openexr opengl osc oss pam pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp patented
pcntl pcre pda pdf pdfkit pdo perl perlsuid planner player plugin pmu png
polling pop portaudio posix postfix postgres ppds preview-latex print procmail
pulseaudio pysolcards python qhull qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes rar rc5
rdesktop readline real realmedia received reflection regex reiserfs replytolist
rpm rrdtool rss rtc rtsp ruby samba sasl sbcl scanner scenarios sdk sdl sensord
serpentine server servlet-2.4 servletapi session sftp shout sid simplexml skins
slp smime sms smtp sndfile soap sockets sound sounds source sox spamassassin
speedo speex spell spl sql sqlite srt sse sse-filters sse2 ssl
startup-notification stream streamripper submenu subtitles subversion suid svg
swat sysfs syslog sysvipc szip tagwriting tcl tcltk tcpd tcsim tesseract tetex
themes theora threads thumbnail thunderbird tidy tiff timestats timidity tk
tokenizer toolbar tools totem transcode trayicon truetype truetype-fonts tta
type1-fonts unicode unzip upnp usb userlocales utempter uudeview uuencode v4l
v4l2 vcd vdr vidix vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vlm vnc
vncviewer voice vorbis vorbis-psy wavpack wddx web webdav widescreen wifi
win32codecs wireshark wlan wma wma123 wmf wmp wordperfect wxwindows x264 x86
xanim xcf xcomposite xext xface xforms xhtml xine xinetd xml xmldoclet
xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsettings
xskatcards xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc xvnc yaepg yaz yp yv12 zeroconf zip zlib
zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106
cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0
intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard magictouch mouse
synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780
lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

kevin@lacqui ~ $

Created an attachment (id=117155) [details]
log of crash

This is the X.org log of the most recent crash

Please attach your xorg.conf too.

Created an attachment (id=117932) [details]
xorg.conf causing crash

Try upgrading to the xf86-video-intel 2.1 driver.

This is an AIGLX issue, documented here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11726

I resolved the issue with:
xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3
x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.3.0
media-libs/mesa-7.0.3

The 2.3.0 driver (or any other) did not work with xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5 and
media-libs/mesa-6.5.2-r1. I have not tried to see if the 2.1.1 i810 driver
works with the latest xorg-server and mesa. Please let me know if you need more
testing on this.

OK, another reason why we should get an xorg 1.4 ebuild + mesa 7 stable...

I have a similar issue with xorg-server-1.5.3-r1, only with phyiscal switching
between two computers attached to the same KVM. Sometimes X will restart. It
seems like there is something in X that has not been addressed for several
versions. 

Maybe it's mesa, maybe it's video drivers, but whatever it is, X seems to not
cater well to switching terminals, virtual or physical. I'd like to see this
stablized. 

This bug can be closed. It was fixed well over six months ago and doesn't
effect >= 1.4.x

Closing then. Thanks for the follow up.