Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles
On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote:
> Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get
> my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
> Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of
> my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to nothing, there is
> no mouse cursor anyway, until I hit ctrl+alt+F7 to get my fully
> functional graphic session back again.
> I tried to replace gdm by kdm, to test from within KDE4 or gnome, and
> got the exact same behavior.
> I don't know where to look now, nor which words would make a valuable
> google search ...
Are you using an intel graphics chip? If so, there was a bug report about this
awhile ago. IIRC you need to enable kernel mode setting: append video=i915 to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub.
MM
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