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Re: [Bug 447692] Re: Ctrl + Alt + F1 etc. fail to send me to console

 

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Steve Langasek wrote:
> X definitely isn't starting before usplash quits in karmic; the usplash
> upstart job is defined as:
>
> stop on (starting-dm
>          or stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
>          or starting rcS)
>
> and each of {gdm,kdm,xdm} is configured to emit the 'starting-dm' signal
> before it starts - so unless you're starting X by hand (in which case
> the usplash package can't be expected to fix that for you), this doesn't
> look like a usplash bug.  There have been some fixes in the past couple
> of days to usplash's upstart job (usplash 0.5.41 and above), but nothing
> that should ever have caused usplash to be running concurrently with X
> on startup.
>
> The bug report shows that non-free nvidia drivers are in use.  I think
> this is much more likely to be a bug in that driver; reassigning to
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (whoop, please confirm which vintage of
> nvidia driver package you're using).
>
> ** Package changed: usplash (Ubuntu) => nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
> (Ubuntu)
>
I'm using the nvidia-glx-96 drivers. I also tried with the "nv" driver
but the problem was still there. However if I remove "splash" from
grub, there is no corruption.
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Ctrl + Alt + F1 etc. fail to send me to console
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447692
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