X Virtual Terminals/Consoles are blank, unusable

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:02:07 +0100, John Austin wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:44 -0400, 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
> > 
> 
> Hi
> Please add to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153729
> if it matches 
> John

No, please don't. That bug has "mga g550" in the subject line and
links a Matrox MGA specific ticket at

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2991

so if you have problems with a different graphics chipset, look for a
different ticket or open a new one. Intel 810 is affected, too, and
tracking bugs and bug fixes results in a mess as long as it's unknown
whether all the problems with multiple chipsets are due to the same bug.