ttys virtual terminals vanished

[sinistertim101]

I am using 9.10 and my ability to "ctrl + alt F-dey" to a ttys shell no longer is available after running an update. 10.04 has the same bug. Getty is installed and I can not figure out what happened.

How do I get ttys back?

[efflandt]

Did you by any chance enable kernel mode (KMS) video drivers in 9.10? When I did that in Karmic I lost the console terminals. They worked in Lucid, but that uses KMS by default and I had other issues with that, so I disabled it with nomodeset kernel parameter.

What is the output of dmesg | grep drm

[sinistertim101]

tim@Sashimee:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-21$ dmesg | grep drm
[ 2.272458] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 2.291235] [drm] radeon default to kernel modesetting DISABLED.
[ 2.291987] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
[ 15.888142] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[ 15.889338] [drm] Loading RS690/RS740 Microcode
[ 15.889360] [drm] Num pipes: 1
[ 15.889368] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 26.308122] [drm] Num pipes: 1
[ 33.742433] [drm] Loading RS690/RS740 Microcode
[ 33.742453] [drm] Num pipes: 1
tim@Sashimee:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-21$

I am installing the linux kernel to enable modesetting manually.

[wojox]

Did you edit that file /etc/init.d/rc and change CONCURRENCY=none to CONCURRENCY=shell?

I did that once and lost my ability to Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6