Re: Text consoles stay black

ubi staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:33:15 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:
Build 8776 of the evil nvidia modules works fine here, been using it
ever since it was marked stable in Gentoo.
So it must be something specific to my machine.

Or the graphics card, or something in your X config.

If X is running, virtual consoles are sorta superfluous as you can
always start another xterm/konsole/eterm.
No, they're not! When the X server gets unusable, for example because
of a [frozen] fullscreen X app,

....then X is usually completely hosed, and unresponsive to keyboard
events like Ctrl-Alt-F?. At least that's been my experience. Alt-SysRq
might still work, but that one doesn't involve X.

the consoles are often the only way to get control of the system by
killing the app from there. At least I have experienced this case

Strange. IME, when X has hosed itself in that way, the easiest way to
regain control of the system without rebooting is to ssh in from another
machine on the LAN and kill -9 X. That doesn't work 100% of the time,
natch. If you're experiencing extreme X instability, it might be time
to fiddle with xorg.conf or try a different version of the evil nVidia
modules.

If you want something that's faster than VESA framebuffer and more
than 80x25, see what you can get from vga=ask. HTH,
Yes, I'm going to try that, thx! If all else fails, I might also
settle for 'normal', as it's only for rescue purposes anyway.

....back in the day, all we had was 80x24, black-and-white, and we liked
it! Uphill in the snow, both ways, with only 64k of address space and
8-bit registers!

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--MegaHAL, trained on random gibberish
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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