Xorg-7.3_1 + Radeon XPress 200M + VT switch = white screen?

[alvest at earthlink.net]

Matt Dawson wrote:
> As subject, has anyone else come across this? X works fine (sans GL as the 
> 200M is one of those finicky IGP "cards" unsupported by DRI) but all attempts 
> to get VT switching to result in anything but a polar bear in a snowstorm 
> viewed through bed linen have proved futile. Typed commands into this white 
> wonderland work (I can login and shut the machine down).
> 
> It's not a major issue as X works fine and I can, at a push, ssh into the box 
> if I really need to. If X doesn't start for whatever reason, the console is 
> fine. I did have VESA in the kernel, which I removed. Still the same result.
> 
> Any ideas? A "me too" would be helpful as misery loves company ;-)

Well then, "me too" sort of.  Mine is the IGP 9100.  I make it work by 
keeping my xf86-video-ati backported to 6.7.192 and forcing it to PCI 
mode in the xorg.conf.
  Option     "BusType" "PCI"      # Force IGP to PCI

It loads the "R200 Microcode."  I never saw the white screen, but 
nothing after 6.7.192 has handled restarts well.

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Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net