The open source AMD drivers are not a solution; I was obliged to switch to proprietary drivers because X/lightdm kept crashing on startup leaving me only with VTs to trouble shoot. Now with the proprietary drivers I can't see the VTs.
The open source drivers every once in a while stopped loading the lightdm greeter. Reinstalling/reconfiguring lightdm and other steps didn't fix the problem. The /var/log/lightdm logs showed errors "Segmentation fault" in the x-0.log and "Process xxxx terminated with signal 6" in the lightdm.log. My system: $ uname -a Linux trustycrucial 3.13.0-85-generic #129-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 17 20:50:15 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lspci -nn | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] [1002:68b8] 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] [1002:68b8] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1470862 Title: When using fglrx module, the virtual consoles are blank and useless Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1470862/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
