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[cogset <jackfog66@xxxxxxxxx>]

>The "who" command verified to me all my tty consoles are fully
functional, only their displays are blacked out.

We know that already, the issue is that they are not really usable if
blacked out: we have a monitor/display for a reason.


We also know that getting rid of the fglrx driver solves the issue right away, unfortunately the fglrx driver also exists for a reason, which would be that the open source driver can't do the same things: at least in my experience, I'm stuck with very basic graphics, I can't set the monitor brightness, I can't use hardware acceleration or use Compiz effects.
These are real drawbacks, if I have to do without this stuff, I may as well do without the ATI video card and use the integrated graphics on the motherboard.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1470862

Title:
  When using fglrx module, the virtual consoles are blank and useless

Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When the PC boots it shows the sddm login, but if I switch to the
  first virtual console using Ctrl+Alt+F1, the console is blank. The
  other consoles are in the same state. Only the virtual console with
  the sddm login, is running fine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: fglrx-updates 2:15.200-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-21.21-generic 3.19.8
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Thu Jul  2 15:31:28 2015
  SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-03-12 (112 days ago)

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