Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #98

Comment 98 for bug 129910

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Salva Ferrer (salva-ferrer) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

I've just tried the solution provided by NeverMind:

> sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
> change the line "blacklist vesafb" to "# blacklist vesafb"
> change the line "blacklist nvidiafb" to "# blacklist nvidiafb" (---> I added this, it was not in the original post, I don't know if it is really needed but make sense to me to use the nvidia fb driver)
> sudo vi /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add fbcon and vesafb
> sudo modprobe nvidiafb
> sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

and reboot.

My ttys are back in my AMD64 with GeForce 6600