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

Dale <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/22/26 6:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> [    1.100292] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
>
> Do you also have an earlier "switching to colour dummy device 80x25" in
> dmesg?  If so, the second one will be indicating that the nvidia-drivers
> console which has just been initialised doesn't satisfy some requirement,
> so the fallback is to switch back to the dummy console.

I have this.


root@Gentoo-1 / # dmesg | grep switch
[    0.294716] APIC: Switch to symmetric I/O mode setup
[    0.299974] Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB: Filling RSB on 
context switch and VMEXIT
[    0.562127] pci 0000:02:00.2: [1022:43e9] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Upstream Port
[    0.562431] pci 0000:03:00.0: [1022:43ea] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Downstream Port
[    0.562669] pci 0000:03:01.0: [1022:43ea] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Downstream Port
[    0.562910] pci 0000:03:02.0: [1022:43ea] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Downstream Port
[    0.563147] pci 0000:03:03.0: [1022:43ea] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Downstream Port
[    0.563391] pci 0000:03:09.0: [1022:43ea] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe 
Switch Downstream Port
[    0.575754] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
[    1.189558] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[    1.927987] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[   15.909071] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
root@Gentoo-1 / #


On 3/22/26 6:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Off to prep another try.
> Surely J.O. Aho's suggestion about setting parameters in the kernel
> command line has got to be the next step?


Yep.  That's the next thing.  I added those options to grub for the 
kernel line and am waiting for a chance to reboot.

Right now, about to get some meds in me and go tackle some garden 
problems, disc the garden today.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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