Lost virtual terminals

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Tom Wekell <Tom at northstarglove.com> wrote:
> 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.

Then you should take this up with SUSE.


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