Comment 17 for bug 282068

Since moving to Ubuntu 10.04 I cannot switch to a tty by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]. My problem looks exactly like bug 447692 but is fundamentally different, as 447692 can be cured by deactivating usplash, which does not make any difference on my computer. Now I thought this here was my problem, though I cannot see a blinking cursor; still the rest (being able to log in blindly) is exactly as in Steve's description above.

Only the remedy proposed here, using startupmanager to change "the display resolution to 1024x768 with a 24bit depth" (it was 640x480 with 8 bits before) does not help me either. Linux is great for servers but the multitude of Launchpad bugs related to "Ctrl-Alt-F1" (try a search for it) might suggest that the Linux desktop (or whatever) is just not suited for certain hardware configurations and nobody has an idea how to fix it. We could try and find out which are these configurations, so people could consider that information upon buying their next computer.