X and virtual consoles not working together

Stephen Durham smd271 at psu.edu
Sun Oct 3 16:03:49 UTC 2004


Nevermind, I don't know what the issue was but I rebooted because I was
switching to the 686 kernel and everything is fine now. At least the
virtual consoles are working, must have been something that needed to be
restarted which I overlooked.
Thanks,
Stephen Durham

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 11:46 -0400, Stephen Durham wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I just encountered this recently and I am not even sure how to go about
> discovering what causes the problem. It was working when I initially
> installed ubuntu and even after subsequent updates, why it is not
> working now I have no clue.  Well it started last night, I left my X
> session open and the system was locked up with the screensaver on. I
> then ssh'd in from another system and restarted the gdm, everything was
> fine again. I then tried to switch to a virtual console and I got a
> blank screen and the system was locked so once again I ssh'd in and
> restarted the gdm and everything is back to normal. Except of course I
> cannot switch to a virtual terminal and I don't know what will happen if
> I leave it alone again for a while.
> Thanks,
> Stephen Durham
> 
> 





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