That was (probably) more or less a given, this is clearly an ATI/fglrx
issue.
What I don't understand is why is considered somehow acceptable to
suffer such an issue, or why the recommended "fix" (?) would be to get
rid of the fglrx driver altogether.
ATI support for Linux may be considerably
>The "who" command verified to me all my tty consoles are fully
functional, only their displays are blacked out.
We know that already, the issue is that they are not really usable if
blacked out: we have a monitor/display for a reason.
We also know that getting rid of the fglrx driver solves
This is also happening in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.3 LTS : right after
installing fglrx-updates and fglrx-amdcccle-updates the virtual consoles
become unusable, i.e. totally blank.
Again, as bad as the AMD support for Linux may be, as a matter of fact
the proprietary driver is (unfortunately) still
In reply to comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-
installer-updates/+bug/1470862/comments/5
I recommend you to get rid of fglrx. Open source drivers for AMD work
today like a charm.
I beg to differ: much as I would really like to get rid of any non-free
components, without the
I'm affected by this bug too in Ubuntu Mate 15.04 amd64, after installing
fglrx-core 2:15.200-0ubuntu4 ,
fglrx 2:15.200-0ubuntu4 and fglrx-amdcccle 2:15.200-0ubuntu4 the six
virtual consoles are blank, only Ctrl+Alt+F7 works to get back to the
graphical environment.
Removing the fglrx
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