there are a lot of duplicates or similar bug reports, so i don’t know which one was the one, i was encountering.
also i had problems with my graphics card and installed and uninstalled a lot of packages. nevertheless: my ttys were broken with weird random noisy color, but were still responsive (entering username and password, then emitting sounds, or touching files)—both with proprietary nvidia driveres and open source nv drivers. i don't know why, but sometime in the process i typed grub --version in a terminal, which printed grub 0.97something to the terminal. i was confused, since i thought karmic upgraded to grub2 and i already executed the necessary commands to upgrade my old grub installation to the new one. all files in /boot/grub were there with old grub, so i thought it was grub2. but those files were never be used. after installing grub2 (sudo apt-get install grub-pc) all my ttys work again now. with nv as well as with nvidia. hope this hopes people with similar bugs -- tty corruption on press Ctrl+Alt+F1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411264 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
