Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

[rudu <rudu@cegetel.net>]

Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
> rudu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 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).
>
>
> When did it stop?

I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thing, 
when I had to go back to the nv driver as I couldn't get the proprietary 
Nvidia driver to compile with my new kernel.
FWIW, a few more details :
$ uname -a
Linux birdynam 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:07:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 
GT] (rev a1)


> > 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 ...