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 Ubuntu-X, 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1470862/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
