Lost virtual terminals

Tom Wekell Tom at NorthStarGlove.com
Mon Dec 7 15:39:16 PST 2009


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Define "replacing my videocard".  What did you have before?
> 
> Also see /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:35 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
<snip>
Thank you for your replies.
The former card was a e-GeForce 6200LE, 256MB.  It died in service and 5 of the
7 caps having split tops.
My NVIDIA driver was supplied by openSUSE and the README.txt is nowhere to be
found on my system.

Thank you,
Tom




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