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

"J.O. Aho" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14/03/2026 20.55, Dale wrote:

Hi Dale

> I did my updates earlier.  Usually I logout, go to boot runlevel and 
> restart services if needed and then go back to default runlevel and 
> login.  I noticed a couple weeks ago that I no longer get a console when 
> I do a CTRL ALT F1.  My monitors turn off saying no signal.  At first, I 
> did the sysrq thing.  Then it occurred to me that I should try CTRL ALT 
> F7 and see if the GUI is still running.  It is.  So, at least I can log 
> back in.

I had this issue too, after a lot or reading and testing I added the 
following kernel options:
        video=efifb:on nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 ibt=off

This gave me back the console when switching with VT.

nVidia made some changes to the driver, which given this issue to quite 
many people who uses the console.

-- 
  //Aho
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