Comment 12 for bug 660596

I thought I was affected by this bug but it was actually a different root cause in my case.

The actual cause was my dual display setup.

When I switched to the nvidia driver from nouveau, I didn't realize that I had even plugged in my "second" display. While the display was actually powered off, the driver was still able to automatically detect it. The second display, which was off, got chosen as primary display which. The end result was that I was able to reach the console but not see the X screen on the primary.