Switch tty get blank screen

jasonsim · 2007-04-23 18:20:20

Guys, I was getting this problem when every time i switch my tty i will get into blank screen. There was no problem with tty7 and i was able to load the gdm. pls assist...

Regards,
Jason.

madeye · 2007-04-24 10:08:28

I've had a similar problem.
Whenever I exited from X to go back to the console, I would get a blank screen. (My monitor would go to power save).
This started happening after the nvidia drivers for my graphic card were installed. The nv driver did not have this problem.

The solution to this was to add

vga=XXX

to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst

XXX is the resolution you want in your console and can be found in the following table:

                    Resolution
Colordepth       |    640x480      800x600      1024x768      1280x1024
256        (8bit)|     769          771           773           775
32000     (15bit)|     784          787           790           793
65000     (16bit)|     785          788           791           794
16.7 Mill.(24bit)|     786          789           792           795

Hope this helps.

jasonsim · 2007-04-24 19:51:54

Thanks MadEye,

I just added vga=773 after the kernel line, reboot and it just works...

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=773

So happy now...
Thanks...

madeye · 2007-04-25 07:53:22

Glad to have been able to help you.

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#1 2007-04-23 18:20:20

Switch tty get blank screen

#2 2007-04-24 10:08:28

Re: Switch tty get blank screen

#3 2007-04-24 19:51:54

Re: Switch tty get blank screen

#4 2007-04-25 07:53:22

Re: Switch tty get blank screen

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