Problem w/ virtual terminals

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:13:31 -0500
schrieb "geoffrey froner" <geoffrey.froner at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Leo Cacciari <leo.cacciari at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Il giorno gio, 28/02/2008 alle 08.52 -0500, geoffrey froner ha
> > scritto:
> > > I am still unable to access a virtual terminal from the GUI when I
> > > enter Ctrl-Alt-F#.  All I get is a blank screen.  I can return to
> > > the GUI by typing C-A-F7.   I wrote about this already and have
> > > tried some of the fixes but no luck so far.  I am running 7.10
> > > (Gutsy) on an IBM ThinkCentre.
> > > >From what I've read, it seems this is a bug in 7.10; does anyone
> > > >have
> > > an answer or can advise to whom, to where, I should address my
> > > question?
> > IIRC, this was discussed on the ML for ndivia graphic cards, it was
> > due to a wrong behaviour of the framebuffer and two solutions had
> > been proposed: either modify kernel parameters in grub or include
> > some module or others in the initrd image. I'm sorry, I can not
> > remember the details, but if you looks on
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net and search for ndivia you should find.
> > Alternatively you could search the ML archives.
> >
> > --
> > Leo 'TheHobbit' Cacciari
> >
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> 
> > I couldnt find anything re: nvidia on Launchpad.  What is the URL
> > for ML and what does that stand for?

You should work on your quoting abilities. ML means Mailing List and
the URL is at the bottom of every mail.

Gerald