Re: Lost TTYs

[Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>]

Video corruption?
I have seen this in some machines where once switched to xorg mode,
it is almost impossible to go back to the consoles. Installing
proper drivers for the cards sometimes fixed this issue.

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, David Baron wrote:

> Probably a bug in the latest and greatest xorg off Sid.
>
> Somewhere along the line, tty's get lost. That's right ... lost. Hitting
> alt/ctrl/F1 yields either the Debian blue swirl or once kde4 is up, a funny
> version of the current screen. alt/F7 gets the kde session back. No TTY0
> session.
>
> Get no TTY available errors in logs as well!
>
> Anyone seen it? Fixed it? Reported it?
>
>
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Bhasker C V
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