On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Alain Spineux wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> when pressing CTRL-ALTF-F2 to switch to text console, the screen stay >> in graphic mode, only the mouse cursor disappears. >> I can blindly login, type some command; see the hard disk light blink >> at each command, then go back using ALT-F1 and see I logged in on >> tty2. >> But switching between tty1 an tty2 never change my display. >> >> I have a Laptop Compaq Evo N610c with a ATI RADEON Mobility M7. >> It was working fine with FC8. >> >> Any idea? > > By any chance are you doing this because your X session has stopped > responding? The X server may have died, possibly due to driver issues. You > don't say what release and kernel you run, there have been some recent FC11 > upgrades which seem to help on other hardware. Yes and no ! Sometime because after a hibernate my display looks like "encrypted", (but I can still guess my cursor and start programs) and sometime I like the text console to work. I will start a yum update to see. Thanks > > You can do a ps command with X working and not working to see if the server > has died. Someone can probably tell you how to restart it (other than > reboot), my method makes people cringe and I won't share it, or even admit I > do it. :-( > > A possibility, since you are inviting guesses by lack of detail in the > question. > > -- > bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > CTO TMR Associates, Inc > > "Now we have another quarterback besides Kurt Warner telling us during > postgame > interviews that he owes every great thing that happens to him on a football > field to his faith in Jesus. I knew there had to be a reason why the > Almighty > included a mute button on my remote." > -- Arthur Troyer on Tim Tebow (Sports Illustrated) > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
