Lost virtual terminals

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Tom Wekell <Tom at northstarglove.com> wrote:
> List--
> After replacing my video card, I have no access to the virtual terminals 1 to 6.
> The key combination <Ctrl><Alt><Fn 1-6> blanks the screen and after a few
> seconds the monitor displays a "power save" banner then the monitor sleeps with
> the power indicator doing a slow blink. A <Ctrl><Alt><Fn 7> returns to the X
> session.
> How do I trouble shoot this?
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> glxinfo | grep -i OpenGL
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 190.42
> OpenGL extensions:
>
>
> ps -ef | grep getty
> root      3567     1  0 09:46 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
> root      3568     1  0 09:46 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
> root      3571     1  0 09:46 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
> root      3572     1  0 09:46 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
> root      3574     1  0 09:46 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
> root      3576     1  0 09:46 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
>
>
> uname -a
> Linux fido.tacoma.northstarglove.com 2.6.25.20-0.5-default #1 SMP 2009-08-14
> 01:48:11 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> cat /etc/SuSE-release
> openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
>

This is usually a problem with the  video driver, but  you appear to
have a fairly current nVidia driver, so I'm at a loss to explain. Have
you tried Google?

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.