Virtual Console Problem

[John Austin]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:12 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> I ma installing 3 desktop FC4 systems on E-Machine's.  Everything has
> gone pretty well except that I when I switch to the virtual consoles
> using <Cntrl><Alt>F1 etc.  The screen either becomes black or remains
> the same but is unusable.  I am able to switch back to the gui with
> <alt>F7 and continue, but the virtual consoles are inoperative.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Greg
>  
> 
yum update to the latest xorg-x11 which is something like
xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242
especially comment #193 for the gory details

John