virtual console

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Thu Dec 1 12:17:28 UTC 2005


Sean Bruno wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 14:00 +0700, Rapid Sun wrote:
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>>Hi ALL,
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>>I have installed FC 4 with default. And try to use virtual console
>>(Crt+Alt+F1-F6).
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>I seem to recall something about the on-board Intel graphics chipsets
>having issues with the initial kernel in FC4....I think :) if you update
>your kernel(and possibly Xorg) the console comes back.
>
>Sean
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For one of many bug reports on the problem, see bug below. Upgrading 
xorg was the problem and the kernel was not involved with the failure 
directly. Though FC5 test kernels do strange things when multiple video 
cards are installed.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160453

Jim




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