Re: No console anymore. How to figure this out.

On 3/17/26 8:31 AM, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 March 2026 05:11:04 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
>> On 3/16/26 10:30 AM, Michael wrote:
>>> You haven't yet showed 'grep DRM .config' of your running kernel.
>> Here you go.
>>
>>
>> root@Gentoo-1 /usr/src/linux # grep DRM .config
>> CONFIG_DRM=y
>> # CONFIG_DRM_DEBUG_MM is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
>> # CONFIG_DRM_PANIC is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_OVERALLOC=100
>> # CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_TTM=y
>> CONFIG_DRM_TTM_HELPER=y
>> # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_CH7006 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_SIL164 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_NXP_TDA998X is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_NXP_TDA9950 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_XE is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_VGEM is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_VKMS is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_GMA500 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_UDL is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_AST is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_MGAG200 is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_QXL=y
> You probably don't need QXL unless you're running VM in QEMU?

I've read about VM and that is a no.  I don't know what QEMU is for 
sure.  I'm going with no on that as well.  ;-)

>
>> # CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_PANEL=y
>> CONFIG_DRM_BRIDGE=y
>> CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE=y
>> # CONFIG_DRM_ANALOGIX_ANX78XX is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_ETNAVIV is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_GM12U320 is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_VBOXVIDEO is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_GUD is not set
>> # CONFIG_DRM_SSD130X is not set
>> CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_ORIENTATION_QUIRKS=y
>> # CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL is not set
>> root@Gentoo-1 /usr/src/linux #
> It looks OK to me, although others have experimented with SIMPLEFB and
> EFIFB to get out of nvidia's clutches when dropping into a console.  I'd
> leave your kernel as is for now.
>
> Your nvidia-drm option has modeset=0 as a default.  In the first
> instance you could try reloading the nvidia_drm module with 'option
> modeset=1' to see if this will restore your VT display, or set it in
> your /etc/modprobe.d/, or in your GRUB's kernel CMDLINE:
>
> nvidia_drm.modeset=1
>
> and reboot.


I added it to the kernel command line.  Easiest way to test and reverse 
if needed.  I'll reboot later on.  I hope that works.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)