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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
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  • could you post your xorg.conf? It could help in finding a solution.
    – user1931
    Oct 6, 2009 at 21:17
  • Ok i've posted it. It's rather short though. Oct 6, 2009 at 21:23
  • When you press Ctrl-Alt-Fn nothing happens? Oct 6, 2009 at 21:28
  • Woops, forgot to explain that. Edited my question Oct 6, 2009 at 21:54
  • Please post your Xorg.0.log
    – fpmurphy
    Jan 24, 2011 at 1:22

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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".

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    in jaunty (ubuntu 9.04) xorg.conf is extremely minimal; they're phasing it to a detect-everything mode. this is why mouse & kbd are missing. karmic (9.10) won't even install an xorg.conf, tho supposedly you can create your own if needed. Oct 7, 2009 at 3:54
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I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10. It has new nVidia drivers (version 185 I think) which fixed this problem

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