Comment 121 for bug 129910

ardchoille here again. I wanted to post some new information in case it is helpful.

I just did a complete fresh install of Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) on this machine. Here is what I found:

First reboot after the new install I found that all tty's (1-7) are functioning correctly.
I installed a lot of apps, made lots of tweaks and reconfigured xorg to get the resolution I wanted.
After rebooting, I noticed that all tty's are still working properly. The only thing different this time is I did not install nvidia drivers.

The normal way I installed nvidia drivers in Feisty was:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

The first time I installed nvidia drivers in Gutsy (which started this problem), I used the Restricted Manager - which I feared but did it anyway. The thing I disliked about that manager is that it didn't give me a choice between the nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-new drivers - I dislike using "new" things because they're usually buggy. I'm wondering if I install nvidia-glx the old way if that will avoid this non-existent tty problem. I don't think it's the kernel because I have all tty's working now on the same machine and same kernel that had the problem earlier.. I think this has to do with the nvidia drivers.