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Desktop computer, AMD Athlon II X4 processor, Asus motherboard, aging NVidia graphics card, using Nuveau drivers.
On clean boot the virtual consoles all work great. I usually used Gnome 3.2 and boot directly into it. If I suspend my machine, or if it suspends due to inactivity, and then wake the machine, Gnome/GDM come up and everything seems to work fine. If I ctrl+alt+F1 the screen remains black. I can blindly type "root" and my rootpassword or login as a user, and issue commands. The thing is that I can't see what I'm doing. I know it works because I can type "reboot" and the system reboots, or "pkill gdm" and it kicks me back to the graphical console to the login screen because I just killed gdm. So I know it's working, but there's no display. Just a blank screen.
Any ideas why that might be and how to correct it?
Thanks.
Last edited by hooya (2011-10-29 02:16:09)
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This issue no longer occurs now that I've moved to the proprietary NVidia drivers instead of the Nouveau drivers I had been using. Unfortunately the Nvidia drivers don't, by default, allow for a nice resolutions in the virtual consoles (full native) whereas Nouveau drivers did.
So, the solution was to use the proprietary NVidia drivers.
Will now go and see how I change the resolution in those virtual consoles using these video drivers.
Last edited by hooya (2011-10-29 02:16:37)
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