Hello, Dale. On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 14:55:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > Howdy,
> 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've never ran into a situation where CTRL ALT F1 didn't give me a > console. I did check, agetty is running. I even did a pkill so it > would restart, still no console. I have no idea where to go from here. > In some 20 years of using Linux, I've never had a console not be there. > This started about two weeks ago. Maybe three. I suspect a update but > it could be that I either updated a config file or may have changed > something not meaning to. > Anyone have ideas on what to check to fix this? You've got an nVidia graphics card, haven't you? I note that you're getting _no_ signal to the monitors, not merely a blank signal. In your position, I'd look to see if the card's microcode has been recently "updated", possibly on building gentoo-sources-6.18.12. Then do the same for the card's drivers. If so, try going to the previous version of either of these. Other than that, I've no idea. > Thanks in advance. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
