Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/2/25 12:48 PM, Dave Close wrote: Looking through the dmesg output on the problem machine and on another machine (also Fedora 41) with the same monitor attached, I don't find any references to the monitor at all. It appears that monitor detection doesn't happen until the normal syslog process

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM Dave Close wrote: > "George N. White III" wrote: > > >Try booting a Live USB -- if that gives graphics you know the hardware is > >working. > > Tried that. It doesn't boot. I think the BIOS on this machine requires > some keyboard entry to select the USB boot. Hard

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
"George N. White III" wrote: >Try booting a Live USB -- if that gives graphics you know the hardware is >working. Tried that. It doesn't boot. I think the BIOS on this machine requires some keyboard entry to select the USB boot. Hard to do without video. I'm beginning to think adding a video car

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
Samuel Sieb wrote: >What is the video device? "lspci" output The display does not appear in that output. >Check "journalctl -b" for lines with "drm" or "modesetting". kernel: ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered kernel: [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. kernel: [drm] initializing ker

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
I wrote: > Trying to start X through the SSH (-X) connection, I'm told, "Only > console users are allowed to run the X server". Trying to start Wayland > doesn't work either but produces voluminous output. If the serial > connection worked, it would be a console, so maybe Wayland or X could at > le

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Roger Heflin
you might try adding setterm --blank 0 --powersave no --powerdown=0 I think i have had luck with that making sure when I turn a monitor back on that the session/screen/output is there and still showing. I think I have put this sort of stuff in rc.local before to be run at boot. On Wed, Apr 2,

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Dave Close
I wrote: > I have a machine running Fedora 41 which has stopped providing video > for its console. Of course, the problem could be hardware, but there > is no clear evidence of that. I am able to access the machine with SSH > so I know it is working. I don't find any indication of a problem in > l

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 07:17 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > I have had my display disappear and not come back when turning on/off > a monitor/tv. Sometimes on/off again works, sometimes moving the > hdmi cable to another monitor port works, and sometimes I have to > reboot. And in these cases the m

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

2025-04-02 Thread Roger Heflin
If the machine does not crash then the serial console is not going to have any information that dmesg from ssh does not have. The use-case for the serial console(or kdump) is when the machine stops and you can no longer see dmesg output from that boot. Likely you will need to find the log file fo

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