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