Debian
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #128

Comment 128 for bug 129910

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Sam Pearson (sagepe) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

I have experienced this problem on a clean install of 7.10. Graphics are provided by an old nvidia gforce mx2 card. TTYs 1-6 showed up following the initial install and following the restricted drivers install using the new GUI module. They disappeared after I added vga=791 to my boot options.

Removing the vesafb blacklist from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer and adding both that module and fbcon to the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file and updating the initramfs has worked for me, so thanks to those that suggested this as it saved me time fiddling about testing these possibilities myself. I now have TTYs 1-6 working at the correct resolution.

I also had to manually correct the /etc/usplash.conf resolution to get the boot spash to work without my monitor complaining - it can only cope with 1024x768. As X.org works fine and correctly detects the limits of the monitor (although the refresh rate can go higher than the GUI wants to let me set it) I can't see why these settings can't be transferred to usplash.conf, but I digress.

I regard this as a serious bug, even if it's unlikely to be noticed by less technical users. I certainly noticed it almost immediately.