Lost virtual terminals

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Tom Wekell <Tom at northstarglove.com> wrote:
> 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.

Again, if SUSE is choosing not to include the support documentation:
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt

then you need to turn to SUSE for assistance.


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