I cannot tell which of these things is causing the problem, but something has broken my graphical console. When I boot up, I get an fbdev console. I login and type "startx", which starts X11 (KDE, if you care). When I logout, and X quits, I expect to get my console back, but I don't. I get a blank screen. I can restart X11 remotely. And also, the keyboard still works (ctrl-alt-delete will reboot). But the display is blank. The only way to get the console back is to reboot. When I first encountered this problem, I figured I had an X11 config or build problem. So I removed all X11 packages and reinstalled them. This time, I switched from "radeonhd" to "ati", with an empty xorg.conf. I also updated to 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 (from r1). None of these things fixed the problem. I still have the same console hosing when I quit X11. Reproducible: Always $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.5 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=5" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="--jobs=5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bidi bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode fbcon ffmpeg filter flac fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gnutls gpm hal httpd iconv ipv6 jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos lame lapack lcms ldap live lm_sensors mad matroska mjpeg mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp openssl pam pcre perl php png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba session spl sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode utempter vcd vlm vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
If by fbdev console you are referring to kernel modesetting, this does not yet work with any release of xf86-video-ati
I kept bugging the people in #radeon in freenet, and I finally figured out what's going on. The original fb console driver for Radeon and the new ati drivers for X11 are not compatible. The solution is to set up Kernel Mode Setting and not include the Radeon console driver so that the generic one uses DRM and KMS. Then it all works just fine. The REAL bug is that Gentoo docs don't mention any of this. In fact, all Gentoo docs on setting up both X.org and framebuffer console are dangerously out of date.
Sounds to me like this problem is worth documenting. How about mentioning the driver conflict in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
Thanks for reporting; fixed in CVS.
