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  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #122

Comment 122 for bug 129910

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Ian MacGregor (ardchoille42) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

*** 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