Bug 87155 – nv driver, can't switch to virtual console from X (not xkbcomp issue)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Dmitri Pogosian 2005-03-29 11:45:45 UTC]

I run 'nv' (not nvidia) driver with QuadroFX 1000 card, digital SGI FX180 monitor.
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1,  amd64 dual opteron on Tyan 2885 board, gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r14, devfs system

Switching to virtual console from X with Alt-Cntrl-F1-6 does not work. On the press, mouse is killed, there is a momentary blink, image retains the same as under X. Interestingly, pressing Return at this stage shifts the image leftwise (nad circularily) by about 20%. So by pressing return I can move the image of my session in circle. With that, the bottom 20-30 pixel rows get corrupted.
Other keys does not seem to produce anything in this state.

Pressing Alt-Cntrl-F7 restores the X session all right. Mouse is back, X dumps new Xorg.log, everything is dandy and working.

As two remarks:
1. Console works all right at boot time
2. I continously have, perhaps related, 
 localhost kernel: devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/7

messages in the log, although vcc/* devices are there as well as the symplinks
for /dev/tty* -> /dev/vcc/*

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start X session
2. Press Alt-Cntrl-F1
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen blinks and returns to X-window image, mouse is killed, some keyboard
keys, like Return produce image motions, others do nothing.
Alt-Cntrl-F7 restores the X-window session

Expected Results:  
Switch to the first virtual console

emerge info

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 12 2005, 22:24:07)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl
dvd dvdr fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib
java jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff motif mp3 multilib ncurses nls nptl opengl
oss pam perl png ppds python qt readline sdl server spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb xinerama xml2 xmms xpm
xrandr xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-03-31 12:05:30 UTC]

Does it work with another X driver, e.g. fbdev (if you have framebuffer set up) or vesa?

[Comment 2 Dmitri Pogosian 2005-03-31 14:17:07 UTC]

Hm, upgrading to 2005.0 profile seems resolved the issue.

Perhaps the issue was with CONSOLEFONT in /etc/rc.conf, which I tried to
change for another than the default option before. 

The only other obvious thing to happen during upgrade is glibc recompilation.