Text consoles on Linux don't work, caused by nVidia driver

Question

I'm using Kubuntu 9.04, a GeForce 9800M GS (laptop) video card with nVidia's drivers, version 180. If I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2-F6) I should go to a fullscreen text console (instead of the X server running on terminal 7). This works if I use the default drivers, but not if I use the nVidia ones. Instead, it goes to a fully black screen (backlight off), with sound no longer audible (songbird is so nice to actually pause the music)

(How) can I solve this? I need the nVidia drivers, or stuff will be slow and ugly.

Here is my xorg.conf. You should know that I've never touched it, it's all automatically managed:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier      "Default Screen"
    Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
    Device          "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
    Driver  "nvidia"
    Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
EndSection

Answer 1

If that's your complete xorg.conf, it's highly incomplete. It's missing descriptions of your mouse and keyboard, for two. It also doesn't set a resolution anywhere, e.g.

Option:      "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0 +0"

You may want to regenerate xorg.conf, for instance by running "sudo nvidia-settings".

Answer 2

I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10. It has new nVidia drivers (version 185 I think) which fixed this problem