[ltp] 2.6.18 delays switch to text console

Martin Lorenz linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:35:47 +0200


On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:56:24AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I am playing around with 2.6.18, and I noticed something rather strange.
> 
> I regularly switch from X to the text console (also, for hibernating).
> 2.6.18 is adding a big delay, of 5s or so, during which the screen is
> completely blank.  After the delay, the regular console text appears.
> 
> Anyone else is experiencing this?  The text console is *not* fbcon, just the
> regular text-mode vga console, and radeonfb is not loaded.

no such behaviour here (X60s - no fb - intel i945 graphics chipset)

gruss
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