Re: X Virtual Terminals/Consoles are blank, unusable

["Sessoms, Mack" <zac9@xxxxxxx>]

did notice something else though.  In the display settings window, on 
the hardware tab, all of the buttons use alt+c with the exception of the 
ok button.

Sessoms, Mack wrote:

> i have an on-board intel 915 and do not see this problem.  i have 
> ctrl+alt+f[1-7] as usual.  i have a FC3 install with an onboard intel 
> 865 that is normal as well.
>
> Matt Galvin wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > When cycling through the virtual terminals/consoles of
> > X(CTR+ALT+F[1-7]) I see that they are all blank screens and I cannot
> > use them at all. con7 displays the desktop (gnome in my case) as
> > expected but con1 - con6 are completly blacked out/blank and I am
> > unable to use them for anything.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Can anyone confirm?
> >
> > My machine has an on-board Intel 865 video card/chip and I am using an
> > Acer AL1714 LCD display.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >