Lost virtual terminals

[Tom Wekell]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Thank you for the response;  Perhaps I misspoke.  I meant an openSUSE link to a
NVIDIA repository at   http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0.

Regards,
Tom