briggella
May 21st, 2008, 11:02 AM
I started with a beta install of hardy which I have gradually upgraded to the standard release via updates, but when I try and switch to a Virtual Console, nothing happens. It just stays at the GUI.
If I open a terminal and run
ps -A|grep tty
4694 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4695 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4697 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4700 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4701 tty6 00:00:00 getty
5523 tty7 00:00:01 Xorg
5640 tty1 00:00:00 getty
Then they are all there. Anyone got any ideas?
Further info
I have installed this on a new dual core athlon with an nvidia 6100 graphics card
I have just installed production hardy on a Thinkpad A31 which has run VCs in gutsy and edgy without problem and ran hardy with VCs until I ran the updates. Now the VCs have stopped working on this too. I have checked that the VCs are not switched off in the Xorg.cong, I have run modprobe fbcon and nothing appears to have made any difference.
I notice that googling shows this to be a common problem, but as yet no-one has a solution.
If I open a terminal and run
ps -A|grep tty
4694 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4695 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4697 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4700 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4701 tty6 00:00:00 getty
5523 tty7 00:00:01 Xorg
5640 tty1 00:00:00 getty
Then they are all there. Anyone got any ideas?
Further info
I have installed this on a new dual core athlon with an nvidia 6100 graphics card
I have just installed production hardy on a Thinkpad A31 which has run VCs in gutsy and edgy without problem and ran hardy with VCs until I ran the updates. Now the VCs have stopped working on this too. I have checked that the VCs are not switched off in the Xorg.cong, I have run modprobe fbcon and nothing appears to have made any difference.
I notice that googling shows this to be a common problem, but as yet no-one has a solution.