Can't Switch Betweem TTY And X

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Hello list,

Just an update.  Have installed Hardy 32 bit after
using gparted live CD to shrink my gutsy partition and
make several new 50 GiB partitions to add OSes for
testing.  Gparted live CD worked good, but had to
delete tha partition used for hardy when trying to
install because of no root. Seems silly to me that you
create a partition with gparted and then have to
delete it to install hardy 32 bit from the alternate.
I´m now having no trouble switching between ttys in
Hardy but still can´t do it in gutsy even after trying
the fixes from the link NoOp gave me above.  Willing
to try anything else to fix the gutsy issue.  Hardy is
nice but having a little trouble typing an ¨ ´ ¨ from
the keyboard which didn´t happen in gutsy.  Have to
type an ¨ or ´ two or more times for it to print.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net