Bug 14058

Summary: hard crash when switching from xorg to VT and back (gutsy)
Product: xorg Reporter: Rolf Leggewie <bugs.freedesktop.org>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: alexdeucher
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Rolf Leggewie 2008-01-13 08:54:33 UTC 
This problem has also been reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/182430

xorg on my Thinkpad X24 has been completely broken with the gutsy upgrade. I cannot even switch to a virtual terminal with Alt+Ctrl+F1 and back to X anymore.

Entering the console is fine and I can restart X or more precisely gdm from there to get back into X, but if I just use Alt+Ctrl+F7 the machine locks up completely and cannot even be ping'd anymore. I have to shut it down hard by pressing the power key for about 5 seconds. As the machine crashes, there is no way that I know of on how to collect relevant information or such things from logs.

I had wondered if possibly my xorg.conf was faulty. But starting X without xorg.conf produces the same behaviour.
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2008-01-13 09:10:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13994 ***

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