Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Mike writes: > Thinking back, I seem to recall the issue with the screen turning off > started after I switched from Nouveau to the Nvidia driver. It fixed > the issue I had with X but broke my console. I think I had a similar issue some years ago and these two lines /etc/default/grub helped:

Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-15 Thread Felix Miata
Mike composed on 2024-06-15 23:47 (UTC+0100): > On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> The following applies with all FOSS drivers I've ever used except possibly >> mga: >> vga= only works until KMS starts. video= does the desired job while KMS is >> engaged. e.g. >>

Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-15 Thread Mike
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 01:49:08PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Kjörling composed on 2024-06-14 17:11 (UTC): > > > On 14 Jun 2024 17:47 +0100, from Mike: > > >> I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any pointers to get the > >> terminals looking vaguely sensible, please? I think the fir

Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Kjörling composed on 2024-06-14 17:11 (UTC): > On 14 Jun 2024 17:47 +0100, from Mike: >> I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any pointers to get the >> terminals looking vaguely sensible, please? I think the first isse it >> working out how to stop the screen turning off, which I ass

Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-14 Thread Mike
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 05:11:37PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 14 Jun 2024 17:47 +0100, from deb...@norgie.net (Mike): > > I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any pointers to get the > > terminals looking vaguely sensible, please? I think the first isse it > > working out how to stop t

Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 14 Jun 2024 17:47 +0100, from deb...@norgie.net (Mike): > I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any pointers to get the > terminals looking vaguely sensible, please? I think the first isse it > working out how to stop the screen turning off, which I assume is > because the display is out of r

Virtual Terminal has seen better days

2024-06-14 Thread Mike
Folks, I'm trying to resolve a long standing issue with my virtual consoles. They're just a bit messed up. The most pressing issue is that when I boot, after Grub, I get some miminal output on the screen and then the screen turns off. If I blindly enter my userid and password and then type start