Comment 11 for bug 367318

I'd bet my bottom dollar that a permissions problem that causes cons.saver to be unable to access /dev/vcsa* is specific to ubuntu. It worked flawlessly on the last version of Fedora I used, because in Fedora, when you log in on /dev/ttyX, you are automatically granted the appropriate permissions on /dev/vcs(a|)X, so in Fedora, cons.saver doesn't need to be set-id anything to do its job.

I suppose that when Karmic comes out I'll request a free CD and then install that. I'll touch base here again once I've tested the new ubuntu release.