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

On 24/03/2026 21.43, Dale wrote:
> On 3/21/26 5:17 PM, Dale wrote:
>> On 3/19/26 9:49 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> On 14/03/2026 20.55, Dale wrote:
>>>>  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
 >>>
>>> 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.
>
> Still no console.  When I switched, monitors went into standby and then 
> switched off a few seconds later.
> 
> This is the options for the kernel right now.
> 
> root@Gentoo-1 / # cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/kernel-6.12.31-3 
> root=PARTUUID=2c0f8a80-823d-4eb2-938d-364e6aeb51da ro video=efifb:on 
> nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 ibt=off
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
> 
> That look right?  Any other ideas?  Do I need to get my sledge hammer???

It looks right, was reading the old forums post about this, so I have to 
ask a stupid question, as I got a bit lazy after gone trough like 20 
posts in this thread, did you have CONFIG_FB_EFI=y ? seems to be the 
requirement

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1174634.html

I haven't thought too much about kernel options, as been running with 
the pre-compiled kernel.

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   //Aho