Xorg and powerpc: tty switching causes unresponsive screen

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Super Biscuit wrote:
>  If this post to the mailing lists seems to be off topic, please do not allow it through.
>
> Has a fix or work around for the following been issued as of yet: 
> When switching vttyX after starting xsession causes unresponsive monitor- blank output.
> Starting an xsession using a predefined path in .xinitrc or by adding a /usr/local/bin/path to /usr/local/bin/startx also results in unresponsive monitor.
>   
This is an issue with the Rage 128 Open Firmware ROMs. If X exits, the 
FCode ROMs are seemingly not capable of fully restoring the state the 
way the Radeon and nVidia ones are. To fix this, you would need to spend 
a great deal of time understanding the quirks of the Rage 128 ROM, or to 
write a native framebuffer for it. In either case, you probably don't 
need to switch VTs that often.
-Nathan