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[cogset <jackfog66@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was (probably) more or less a given, this is clearly  an ATI/fglrx
issue.

What I don't understand is why is considered somehow acceptable to
suffer such an issue, or why the recommended "fix" (?) would be to get
rid of the fglrx driver altogether.

ATI support for Linux may be considerably worse than Nvidia (as
recognized by many people in the know), but if the package exists in the
Ubuntu repository it should work without rendering the virtual consoles
useless, and this issue shouldn't slip all the way from 14.04 to 15.10.

That

>removing fglrx drivers is some sort of workaround, but presumably
people that did install fglrx in the first place >want fglrx for some
reason

is the appropriate line of reasoning: the official package exists and
should be installable without breaking anything major such as the
virtual consoles.

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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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