https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36256
--- Comment #1 from Connor Behan connor.behan@gmail.com 2011-04-16 06:42:01 PDT --- I can make the consoles work if I delete /dev/vga_arbiter before starting X. This explains why 2.6.32 was the first kernel where I had this problem. Can you go back to making vga_arb a module so people can solve this properly?