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big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Black ttys after X

Hi,

I just installed Arch (x86_64) on my new Dell Latitude D830 laptop. For the video driver, I installed xf86-video-intel v2.1.0-1 from testing.

The problem I'm getting is when I start X (whatever the way, but I'm using a runlevel 5) I cannot go back to a virtual terminal (tty), which worked before starting X. When doing ctrl+alt+FN, I get a black screen. Ctrl+alt+F7 gets me back correctly in X.

Any clues?

Thanx!

My hardware is :
Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2GHz (Centrino Duo)
Intel X3100 (965GM)

madeye

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-07-19

Posts: 331

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Re: Black ttys after X

I have had a similar problem a while back, and the solution for me was to add VGA=XXX to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
XXX is the desired resolution for the terminal.

Here is the link to the post
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32285

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big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Re: Black ttys after X

Thanx that made it.

It's quite strange that the terminals don't work if there's no fb...