Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-30 Thread Justin The Cynical
rudu wrote: Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Bingo !! That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers. The workaround that worked for me : Append the line : options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0 to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf A big thank you to Justin

Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-30 Thread rudu
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit : rudu wrote: Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm doesn't change anything except that I don't even have any flashing prompt on my black screen anymore. Th

Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rudupere wrote: Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit : rudu wrote: In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but every other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a prompt flashing in the upper left corner ... IIRC, in single user mode, this is n

[Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-29 Thread rudupere
Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit : rudu wrote: In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but every other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a prompt flashing in the upper left corner ... IIRC, in single user mode, this is normal. Launchi

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread Justin The Cynical
rudu wrote: In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but every other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a prompt flashing in the upper left corner ... IIRC, in single user mode, this is normal. Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread rudu
Le 28/04/2010 18:30, Anand Sivaram a écrit : What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You could find it from the command "runlevel". # runlevel N 2 Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required gettys are there. For my debian squeeze system, the

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You could find it from the command "runlevel". Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required gettys are there. For my debian squeeze system, these are the relevant lines. # Note that on most Debian systems tty7

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-28 Thread rudu
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:08, rudu > wrote: Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : and what was the driver that wouldn't compile? I run x86-195

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Anand Sivaram wrote: How about single user mode? Are you able to get virtual console there. Also try to disable gdm/kdm, see whether virtual consoles are working. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:08, rudu > wrote: Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-27 Thread Anand Sivaram
How about single user mode? Are you able to get virtual console there. Also try to disable gdm/kdm, see whether virtual consoles are working. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:08, rudu wrote: > Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > >> >> rudu wrote: >> >>> Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerk

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-27 Thread rudu
Le 27/04/2010 03:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : So are you still running nv? Yes and what was the driver that wouldn't compile? I run x86-195.36.15 on the latest Sid kernel and it compiles just fine, but I don't (yet) have a AMD64 s

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I ca

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread rudu
Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure b

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thi

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread rudu
Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thing, when I h

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread Matthew Moore
On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote: > Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get > my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). > Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of > my graphic session's screen except that

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to

Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-26 Thread rudu
Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to nothing, there is no mouse cursor