ardchoille here. I fixed it. I have all tty's working properly now in Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with nVidia GeForce 6200 card (and nvidia-glx installed) on an AMD Sempron 2800+.
The problem started after using the Restricted Manager to install nvidia drivers - it automatically installed nvidia-glx-new without giving me any options. This somehow caused tty's 1-6 to stop working.
This time I installed the nvidia drivers manually with:
I did not alter /etc/initramfs-tools/modules or /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer in any way, nor did I run update-initramfs, and I didn't modprobe anything.
After rebooting, I have all tty's working properly as they were in Feisty. So, the problem is caused either by the nvidia-glx-new drivers or the Restricted Manager GUI/app. I probably wouldn't have figured this out had I not been doing this on the command line for over a year.
*** UPDATE: FIXED ***
ardchoille here. I fixed it. I have all tty's working properly now in Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with nVidia GeForce 6200 card (and nvidia-glx installed) on an AMD Sempron 2800+.
The problem started after using the Restricted Manager to install nvidia drivers - it automatically installed nvidia-glx-new without giving me any options. This somehow caused tty's 1-6 to stop working.
This time I installed the nvidia drivers manually with:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx && sudo nvidia-glx-config enable && sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
I did not alter /etc/initramfs- tools/modules or /etc/modprobe. d/blacklist- framebuffer in any way, nor did I run update-initramfs, and I didn't modprobe anything.
After rebooting, I have all tty's working properly as they were in Feisty. So, the problem is caused either by the nvidia-glx-new drivers or the Restricted Manager GUI/app. I probably wouldn't have figured this out had I not been doing this on the command line for over a year.
Score: command line 1, gui 0