Screen goes black after switching from X to vt
dolphinling
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Sat Nov 14 03:25:59 PST 2009
Martin Swift wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> A while back this issue cropped up and I'm now trying to solve it, and
> would appreciate any insight that you might have.
>
> When I'm running X and want to switch to a virtual terminal (e.g.
> hitting ctr-alt-F1) the screen goes dark (though the backlight is
> still on). I can still type (e.g. reboot the machine), I just can't
> see anything.
This sounds like like you're using KMS and haven't enabled the framebuffer
console. Try setting CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE.
> [...]
> +(II) intel(0): [...]
> [...]
> * Linux 2.6.30, [...]
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