[K12OSN] Issues with two terminals - xserver fails / Matrox Millenium II

[Petre Scheie]

Set the client to boot to a command prompt only, no X, with this setting:

SCREEN_01 = shell

for this particular client, in lts.conf.  The client should then do everything but try 
to start X.  Then you can manually try to start X by running 'startx'.

Petre

Michael Elliott wrote:
> Petre -  I am not able to use Ctrl Alt F2.  Nothing happens.  I even 
> tried just the sequence Ctrl, followed by Alt, then F2, just get garbage 
> characters.
> 
> Barry - I tried swapping out the video cards.  The one from the working 
> system did not help in the one's that do not.  I have reset the BIOS on 
> the one that is not working.  I checked the settings compared to the one 
> that does not work and everything looks the same.   The only thing I did 
> not check is the power management of the bios.  I did have to enable 
> Plug in Play OS, was one difference.    I also double checked the 
> dhcpd.conf file and the MAC and Static IP are correct and the machine is 
> receiving the address.  I recreated the lts.conf section for this one 
> machine to match the one that is working.  I even tried using a PCI 
> Matrox Millennium II which did the same thing.
> I did change the XSERVER equal to XF86_SVGA (both with the PCI and AGP), 
> also did not work.
> 
> Guys, I am getting quite frustrated with this.  I hope I can get this 
> solved soon or I will have to replace the computer with another system.
> 
> Any advice appreciated -
> 
> Mike
> 
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