ASUS F3SC-AS218E here, with GeForce 8400M. I was testing all Tribes and RC of Ubuntu Gutsy and recently I installed it from official ISO. I have nvidia-glx-new driver installed by Restricted Drivers Manager and I have obviously noticed problems with black virtual terminals.
Since this notebook has 1440x900 screen I tried at first to enable this or similarly high resolution. However, my attempts proved I was able to turn on only 1024x768. The following applies only to this kernel (it works as I type): $ uname -a Linux ghost 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Here's the procedure I've used to enable high resolution on consoles: 1. Select font used in framebuffer mode: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup * select "Fixed" font or any other you like/prefer 2. Modify kernel parameters: $ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst * change: # defoptions=quiet splash locale=pl_PL * to: # defoptions=vga=791 quiet splash locale=pl_PL 3. Make sure the changes are applied: $ sudo update-grub 4. Modify usplash configuration: $ sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf * change: xres= yres= * to: xres=1024 yres=768 5. Enable modules autoloading: $ sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules * at the end of file add: fbcon vesafb vga16fb 6. Remove modules from blacklist: $ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer * change: blacklist vesafb blacklist vga16fb * to: # blacklist vesafb # blacklist vga16fb 7. Just in case: $ sudo depmod -a 8. Apply all changes in one go, including initrd generation: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash After restart all is right, just like it was in Feisty. -- tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
