Hi,

I recently switched from the proprietary fglrx driver to open source radeon driver (for X.org), after noticing that 1280x800 resolution for Radeon Xpress 1270 is supported in the version included with latest kernel (2.5.25, in Debian unstable, I think), but I'm having a little problem.

After launching X (either through a graphical login manager like gdm or startx from shell), my virtual terminal disappears, i.e. if I type Ctrl + Alt + F1, I see a blank screen, and the same thing, if I quit X altogether.

Below is my current xorg.conf, the lines that are commented out (esp. Virtual in the Screen section) are what I usually use for dual screen, on the off chance that those settings are causing the problem,
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"dvorak"
	Option		"XkbVariant"	"dvorak"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "LockedDrags"           "true"
        Option          "LTCornerButton"        "2"
        Option          "RTCornerButton"        "3"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Radeon Xpress"
	Driver      "radeon"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
        # accelration
#        Option          "AGPMode" "4"
#        Option          "EnablePageFlip" "on"
#        Option          "RenderAccel" "on"
        # enable (partial) PowerPlay features
#        Option          "DynamicClocks" "on"
        # use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)
#        Option          "BIOSHotkeys" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"LVDS"
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Laptop"
	Monitor		"LVDS"
	Device		"Radeon Xpress"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection	"Display"
		Depth 24
		Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800" "1024x768"
#		Virtual 2560 1024
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen         "Laptop"
	InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
	InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
BTW, on the other hand, if I enable dual screen, the virtual terminal is usually shown on the external display, although it is not cloned to the laptop screen.

Is there a simple fix for this (maybe I'm doing something wrong), or should I consider it a bug with the radeon driver?