On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:53:33 +1200
Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> Well I'll try it in my morning but while I suspect that we will need to fix 
> the palette restauration for the radeon (as was done for Xfree86) this is
> not the problem I'm seeing as I'm not getting that far.  Its not that I'm 
> switching to the text console and that its very dim - its that I'm
> apparently not switching at all.  This is with X300 and also i865.

FreeBSD/ports has 2 patches for ATI (ports/x11-servers/xorg-server),
maybe we could try them?