Hello all,
Ever since openSUSE 11 I can’t login to a new session when using ctrl+alt+f…
I just get a black screen with nowhere to type. I’m not sure how these console logins are called so its hard for me to do a successful search on it.
Since I’m messing around a lot I sometimes make X hang on a service/application. Usually I logged in to this new session and killed an app. I can’t do that anymore and ctrl+alt+backspace is so crude 
Hi
They are called virtual terminals (vt) and live on tty1 (boot up one)
and tty2-tty6. Ctrl+alt+F7 is the GUI and ctrl+alt+F10 is the kernel.
I’m wondering if the console screen resolution isn’t set properly at
boot for them. When you boot up do you get a splash screen ok, and if
you hit the esc key when it’s booting can you see the boot processes?
You could also try a boot option vga=0xyyy which is the hex code for
your screen resolution eg 0x317 is 1024x768 (I think it even has the
option with a F key when you see the boot menu?)
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 1 day 2:33, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.08
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
Ty,
Yes when booting I get the splash screens, I can also see whats going on when I press ESC. My X resolution is 1680x1050.
Hi
What about if you try vga=normal at the boot prompt, you may need to
find a resolution lower than 1680x1050 for it to work.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 1 day 3:21, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.25, 0.24
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
Sounds like you did an upgrade? If so, what is your graphics card and do you know what driver you were using before?
Have you tried booting into runlevel 3 (just type a 3 in the lower box on the menu screen), and then doing:
sax2
that will bring up the YaST graphics card configuration program. Or you can try
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
which will tell YaST to configure the vesa driver for the X Server. Once in the gui, you can then configure in YaST, or change the X Server control file manually as is occasionally required, or install if necessary the 11.0 version of the driver for your card.
Hi,
I have this problem on a laptop with ATI and two desktops with nVidia. I’m using the drivers from the ATI and nVidia repo.
I can also get in to the runlevels without a problem. Last weekend I was in runlevel 1 and 3 to fix one of my… ehm… tests
As for the VGA=Normal setting, I’ll try that. If that works then it’s still odd that I didn’t had this problem on SUSE 10.x with the same hardware.
Btw, it’s only the laptop that I use to ‘test & try’ stuff. The two desktops I don’t mess around with and they have the same problem. All tree have 1680x1050. I’ll let you know if the VGA setting @ boot worked.
Oh btw, I have noticed that sometimes the problem isn’t there. I’m not sure, but I think when the machine is on for hours and hours it will go away. I’ll test that too to be sure.
I may have misunderstood your problem. Are you trying to start additional graphical user sessions on other tty’s?
No I just want to be able to logon to a console on the tty’s. So text.
Then we did misunderstand the problem. AFAIK would not have anything to do with X or the video driver.
Sorry, I’m not able to be of much help on this one.
I have the same problem. Ones I was able to use crtl+alt+f1 and then there was an information that there is w problem with kbd service - service for keyboard.
Do you use Gnome?
Yes I use Gnome. In my bootloader I have this: vgamode=0x314
I think that is supposed to be “vga=0x314”. 0x314 is 16-bit 800x600 resolution. This is for the framebuffer. The X server configuration is at /etc/X11/xorg.conf