Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

[rudu <rudu@cegetel.net>]

Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
> rudu wrote:
> > Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
> > > So are you still running nv?
> > Yes
> >
> > > and what was the driver that wouldn't compile?
> > > I run x86-195.36.15 on the latest Sid kernel and it compiles just
> > > fine, but I don't (yet) have a AMD64 system.
> >
> > Excerpt from /var/log/nvidia-installer.log :
> > > Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
> > > WARNING: Skipping the runlevel check (the utility `runlevel` failed
> > > to run).
> > > -> License accepted.
> > > -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 195.36.15.
> > > -> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
> > > -> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
> > > -> The CC version check failed:
> > >
> > >    [...]
>
> Indeed. Forget this if it is beating a dead horse, but did you have
> gcc-4.3 + gcc-4.4 both installed? I did and I set the symlink gcc to
> gcc-4.3 and that got rid of the message.

Thank you Hugo, I managed to compile the proprietary driver.
Now every ctrl+alt+Fn leads to a complete black screen, with no prompt 
or cursor or anything.
Ctrl+alt+F7 works as expected.
Could it be that my system stopped creating the consoles at boot time ?
What should I check and where ?

TIA,
Jean-Marc