In article <425280F2.1000104@iki.fi>,
	Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi> writes:
> Sorry for the false alarm, this not a xen specific problem. Even
> a normal i386 GENERIC kernel has this problem.

We had problems like that before with XFree86, too. I guess something
like this ...

RCS file: /cvsroot/xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_
driver.c,v
[...]
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revision 1.6
date: 2004/03/07 22:57:25;  author: tron;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Fix palette restauration in virtual console switching code. Patch provided
by Matthieu Herrb on the XFree86 developer mailing list.
----------------------------

... needs to be integrated into the X.org server.

Could you perhaps try whether it works with a XFree86 server?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/