Solved--7.10 install form dvd, after update of 7.10, no tty1 - tty6

[Guest]

Installed 7.10 from DVD. The text consoles were there, love to ctrl - alt - f1 -- f6. and look at f8. After the 7.10 update the text consoles are gone. How do I get'em back?
All i get is a blank screen on all the consoles.

runlevel -v
N 2

Looks like they are being loaded.

ps ax | grep getty
4510 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
4511 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
4513 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
4515 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4517 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
4518 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
7543 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep getty

uname -a
Linux dwayne-linux 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Any ideas on how to fix. This is the second time this happened, second clean reinstall.
I have the system working except the text consoles.

[toad]

Re: 7.10 install form dvd, after update of 7.10, no tty1 - tty6

I have read similar complaints and on Debian Lenny the same thing happened to me. As soon as kdm started, tty1-6 were gone

Haven't made inroads into it myself, though...

[Guest]

Re: 7.10 install form dvd, after update of 7.10, no tty1 - tty6

I found this, and it worked for me.
I got the text back in the consoles. And actually the font is better than the one before.

Here's the procedure I've used to enable high resolution on consoles:
1. Select font used in framebuffer mode:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
* select "Fixed" font or any other you like/prefer
2. Modify kernel parameters:
$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
* change:
# defoptions=quiet splash locale=pl_PL
* to:
# defoptions=vga=791 quiet splash locale=pl_PL
3. Make sure the changes are applied:
$ sudo update-grub
4. Modify usplash configuration:
$ sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf
* change:
xres=
yres=
* to:
xres=1024
yres=768
5. Enable modules autoloading:
$ sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
* at the end of file add:
fbcon
vesafb
vga16fb
6. Remove modules from blacklist:
$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
* change:
blacklist vesafb
blacklist vga16fb
* to:
# blacklist vesafb
# blacklist vga16fb
7. Just in case:
$ sudo depmod -a
8. Apply all changes in one go, including initrd generation:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash
After restart all is right, just like it was in Feisty.

[toad]

Re: 7.10 install form dvd, after update of 7.10, no tty1 - tty6

Great stuff, mountain-linux - could you please adjust the subject of your fist post and add

- SOLVED

so that others can benefit from your experience more easily.