Re: DualHead: Console-Login->Black Screen

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:30 +0200, Elias Gerber wrote: 
> I am using a Dual-Head setup to use my external monitor and the LCD of my 
> Laptop (IBM Thinkpad T40p). I use KDM as login-manager. When I click 'console 
> login' instead of login into kde in kdm, the screen just remains dark - I 
> don't see the login-prompt of the console.
>
> I used fglrxconfig to create a working setup for my Dualhead-configuration. 
> The card I use is a Radeon Mobility 9000, fglrx is version 8.16.20, kernel 
> 2.6.11.9, xfree86 is version 4.3, base-system is a Debian Sarge.
>
> Anybody knows how to get the console back working?

Does switching to the console via ctrl-alt-F1 work?


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