[gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

[Walter Dnes]

I did an update yesterday that pulled in, amongst other things,
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1

  I'm running 32-bit linux on an Intel Prescott.  The video card is

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
(rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
        Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

  I prefer to run usenet and email on a real textmode console, at 80
columns x 48 rows (YES; fourty-eight).  For web-browsing or spreadsheets,
I have to flip over to X.

  - if I walk away from the machine for several minutes *WHEN IT'S IN
    TEXT CONSOLE MODE* and the screensaver kicks in, I can get the
    screen back by hitting the shift key, or whatever.

  - if I walk away from the machine for several minutes *WHEN IT'S IN
    X11 GUI MODE* and the screensaver kicks in, I *CANNOT* get the
    screen back by hitting the shift key, or whatever.  Even hitting
    {CTRL-ALT-F1} (back to the text console) doesn't allow me to get the
    screen back by hitting a key.  I have to monkey around with the
    buttons on my LCD monitor, essentially switching from the DVI input
    to the VGA input, and back.  This is a pain.  Is there any way to
    turn off this behaviour?

  Another thing I noticed is that X11 spits out a whole bunch of garbage
on the tty that invoked it.  I do not have TV or any other special video
stuff.  A 24" 1920x1600 LCD is enough for me.  Here is a sample of the
output on the tty that invokes X11...
  

best_post_div: 2
restore memmap
restore common
restore crtc1
restore pll1
finished PLL1
restore FP
enable montype: 3
enable montype: 3
disable montype: 3
finished PLL2
finished PLL1
Entering Restore TV
Restore TV PLL
Restore TVHV
Restore TV Restarts
Restore Timing Tables
Restore TV standard
Leaving Restore TV
disable montype: 3
init memmap
init common
init crtc1
init pll1
freq: 154000000
best_freq: 154000000
best_feedback_div: 308
best_ref_div: 27
best_post_div: 2
restore memmap
restore common
restore crtc1
restore pll1
finished PLL1
restore FP
enable montype: 3
enable montype: 3
disable montype: 3
finished PLL2
finished PLL1
Entering Restore TV
Restore TV PLL
Restore TVHV
Restore TV Restarts
Restore Timing Tables
Restore TV standard
Leaving Restore TV


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