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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #97

Comment 97 for bug 129910

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Ian MacGregor (ardchoille42) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

I just installed Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) a few hours ago on an AMD Sempron 2800+. Install went fine, then installed nvidia-glx-new (with the Restricted Manager) for my nvidia GeForce 6200 card. I tried to ctrl+alt+f1 and noticed the screen was black and none of my tty's work.

ps aux | grep tty reports:

root 4456 0.0 0.0 1696 488 tty4 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root 4457 0.0 0.0 1692 484 tty5 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root 4461 0.0 0.0 1696 484 tty2 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root 4462 0.0 0.0 1692 480 tty3 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root 4463 0.0 0.0 1696 488 tty1 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root 4464 0.0 0.0 1692 484 tty6 Ss+ 12:32 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
root 4974 0.9 4.3 49480 44708 tty7 SLs+ 12:32 0:40 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-rFJ4KA

and KDE 3.5.8 is running quite well on tty7.

Is there a fix that works for this problem yet? I'm kinda lost without my tty's.