Re: virtual text consoles gone
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:27:10PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote:
> >>On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text
> >>console a month or two ago.
>
> >Today the vertual text consoles are back. No explanation.
>
> Doug Tutty gave up trying to instantiate them :-)
>
> There was an intel video driver bug on u***u
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/
> +bug/182865>
> but I didn't mention as I didn't figure you had intel video with AMD
> chipset. Maybe your video driver had a similar issue.
>
> Brian
What did it give up on?
I run Etch amd64 with startx, and still have VT access. (yes, Virtual
Terminals, not my VT520).
Doug.
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