Urgent: Alternate Consoles Not Working

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi,

OK, I am neither sure what these are called not if this is the proper place to report the problem, please let me know if there is a better place.

The consoles that should ne invoked using CTRL-ATL-F1…Fx are simply not there or cause my OpenSUSE 11.2 64-bit to crash. If I hit a combination like CTRL-ALT-F3 (say), my screen goes completely black (there is absolutely nothing on screen), not only that I cannot return to X (using Gnome, if that makes a difference), none of the CTRL-ALT-Fx work after that and I must do a hardware reset.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Please help!

Thanks in advance,

  • Itai
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You wouldn’t happen to be using an ATi display adapter, by any chance?

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Yes. Thanks for asking, often it is hard to guess what would be invloved in the problem. My hardware includes an HIS Radeon 4650.

I’ve updated the driver just now (so I assume it is the latest) and my consoles now show a flashing cursor on a black-screen. Still cannot do anything with the cursor but it was not there before.

Is is something ATI users have to live with or is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance,