tty1-6 don't work in gutsy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
Hi,
I am experiencing problems with switching to tty1-6 on my laptop and desktop machine.
[I added a description of my issue to this bug: https:/
Brian Murray, however, asked me to create a new bug-report because he thinks it's a different issue.
So here it is.]
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I have several machines running gutsy with latest updates.
Among others, one laptop and one desktop that is connected to a 19" LCD TFT.
*Both* of them cannot display the Command Line Interface on tty1-6. The laptop then dies with very ugly stripes until I get it back to STRG+ALT+F7. The TFT on my desk just goes blank.
The desktop expects a password (for hdd decryption) at boottime. You see this sucks since I cannot tell when it's ready to take the password.
This furthermore is a problem if you need to get some command executed on tty1-6. (Or you want to use the Recovery Console. I didn't check if that fails to, but I guess it does.)
In my opinion this definitely needs to be fixed.
(If you search the bug tracker here for the terms "gutsy" and "lcd" you get a whole bunch of bugreports. I chose this to report my bug to but I may have taken another.)
(These are the files of the desktop which I have upgraded to gutsy. The laptop had a fresh install with Tribe 5 and was upgraded to the latest available version.)
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xorg.conf Desktop: http://
xorg.log Desktop: http://
menu.lst Desktop: http://
The Desktop has the following graphics-hardware:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1)
Running with nvidia-glx-new.
The laptop has a ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M, running the standard-driver. (I could install fglrx or do anything you need me to do to help fixing this bug.)
I still want to help getting this fixed as soon as possible. So if you need anything, let me know.
regards
Err.
I thought I had tried this without success.
If I remove vga=XXX from menu.lst, it works (although font size is too big).
I will check if this also works for the laptop.
But nevertheless this is strange, since I only upgraded this system from feisty.
VGA=XXX worked with feisty without any issue.
regards