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I just noticed that switching to tty's via ctrl+alt+f1 doesn't work anymore. my inittab is alright tough. also agetty is started:
ps aux | grep tty
root 2299 0.0 0.0 3820 608 tty1 Ss+ 17:26 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
root 2300 0.0 0.0 3820 612 tty2 Ss+ 17:26 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
root 2311 18.3 4.5 607616 418824 tty7 Ss+ 17:26 5:11 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-9MoBCT
do you have any idea?
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I have got the same problem as well. Ctrl +ALt+F1-6 just displays a blank screen and F7 gets me back to KDE.
Samsom
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What happens if you kill X? Is it still a blank screen, or do you then get to tty1?
Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance.
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Kill X? How do I do that?
Samsom
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Well, if you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the lines:
Section "ServerFlags"
...
Option "DontZap" "false"
...
EndSection
or you specify the same option somewhere in a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/*.fdi file, then you can hit Control-Alt-Backspace to do this. (I think those are the keys, I remapped them on my machine.)
But I'm guessing from your question that you haven't done any of that. So then what you need to do is open a terminal and say
killall X
at which point X and all the terminals and programs you opened inside X should disappear.
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I've got a similar problem, but when I switch to tty1-6 the screen is not completly black, you can see the terminal hardly, but it's there (about 5% opacity).
I can imagine, that on several monitors it appears to be completely blank...
This behavior appeared first, when I first ran X.
I'm using x86-video-ati with ATI Radeon Mobility X1400. (Maybe it's some video issue, dunno)
And I'm booting with vga=773 (grub).
cheers, kulpae
Last edited by kulpae (2010-02-06 23:50:29)
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It works without vga=773 on the grub's menu entry...
But then the terminals are ugly
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@kulpae: try
sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness < /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness
when this happens. (Easiest if you make it a script.) If you don't have those paths in your sys hierarchy, maybe there's a brightness and max_brightness somewhere else underneath /sys?
Last edited by Profjim (2010-02-06 23:58:56)
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thank you Profjim,
but I solved it by providing vga=838 to grub (as my native screen resolution is 1400x1050@32).
I've tried it though, but it doesn't change a thing...
cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
returns 0, but
cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness
returns 7
when performing your script, both values are 7 then, but the terminal stays dark...
When I boot with vga=838 (1400x1050@32) the problem is solved on my box, though...
cheers, kulpae
Last edited by kulpae (2010-02-07 00:37:14)
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OK, but it sounds like in kernel 2.6.33 KMS will be on for Radeon, so you probably shouldn't then---perhaps won't be able to?---use the vga=... kernel line switch anymore. Hopefully by the time that kernel is out your problem will be fixed.
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