>The "who" command verified to me all my tty consoles are fully functional, only their displays are blacked out.
We know that already, the issue is that they are not really usable if blacked out: we have a monitor/display for a reason. We also know that getting rid of the fglrx driver solves the issue right away, unfortunately the fglrx driver also exists for a reason, which would be that the open source driver can't do the same things: at least in my experience, I'm stuck with very basic graphics, I can't set the monitor brightness, I can't use hardware acceleration or use Compiz effects. These are real drawbacks, if I have to do without this stuff, I may as well do without the ATI video card and use the integrated graphics on the motherboard. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer-updates in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1470862 Title: When using fglrx module, the virtual consoles are blank and useless Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When the PC boots it shows the sddm login, but if I switch to the first virtual console using Ctrl+Alt+F1, the console is blank. The other consoles are in the same state. Only the virtual console with the sddm login, is running fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: fglrx-updates 2:15.200-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-21.21-generic 3.19.8 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Thu Jul 2 15:31:28 2015 SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-03-12 (112 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates/+bug/1470862/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp