Can't Switch Betweem TTY And X

[NoOp]

On 06/20/2008 07:21 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Thanks very much, Brian, for the reply; response
> below:
> 
> --- Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> 
>> OK - so to recap you have no text ttys at
>> Control-Alt-F1 thru 6, just
>> black screens.
>> 
> Correct except for this caveat: If I do cntl-alt-F1
> during boot before X starts, I get tty1 as
> expected,during the printout, but can's swaitch back
> to X,tty 7, or any other tty. If I wait til X starts,
> just blank screen and can't get back to X or anything.
> 
>> Further, IIRC you are using gutsy.
>> 
> Correct.
> 
>> Do you have an intel video card (part of motherboard
>> or separate ?)
>> There was a bug in gutsy I ran into personally.
>> 
> Sorry but no. Have Nvidia 6150 on MB and am using PCIE
> card Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) on nvidia MB.
> 
>> see bug 182165

Have a look at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/129910
to see if perhaps that might be your problem. Try taking out any vga=xxx
options. You mentioned that this occured after dpkg-reconfigure debconf
so the above might help.