Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode.  Many can't
> stand surfing with a textmode browser.  Count me in both groups.  So I
> switch back and forth a lot.  This email is being composed in a true
> text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story).  I flip
> to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc.  When I do, I find that the colours
> on my current machine's display are corrupted.  Clicking on a window
> will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks
> like colour confetti.
> 
>   Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2
> Duo cpu.  "lspci -v" shows the integrated video controller twice, as
> both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so...
> 
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM
> Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Dell Device 020d
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
>         Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
>         Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
>         Kernel modules: intel-agp
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: Dell Device 020d
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
>         Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>         I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>         Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1
> Enable-
>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS.
Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and
flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two.