On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:25:36 -0400
"Steven A. Falco" <stevenfalco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently put a new machine together using an AMD Radeon PRO W6600
Graphics Card. CPU is a threadripper pro. Motherboard is an ASUS
Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II sWRX8 E-ATX. Software is the KDE spin
of Fedora 37.
It mostly works perfectly, but if I try to access a virtual terminal
with Ctrl-Alt-F3 my monitors go to sleep, so apparently the video
sync shuts off. Typing Ctrl-Alt-F2 brings me back to my KDE session.
Also Ctrl-Alt-F1 shows me the text that occurred during boot - I have
rhgb and quiet disabled in my grub configuration. So Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
F2 work, but F3 and above do not.
I don't see anything in /var/log/messages that would give me a hint
as to where to start with debugging this. I've tried running SDDM in
wayland and in x11 modes, but that doesn't make a difference.
I'd like to write a bug for this, but I'm not sure how to gather
enough data for a meaningful report. Are there some kernel options I
can try, or other ways to get more data?
Is the number of consoles in /etc/systemd/logind.conf set to more than
2? The default is 6, and so systemd should set up 6 virtual consoles
for use. They usually don't actuate until visited, but they should
still be available to a Ctrl-Alt-[3-6].
I boot to multiuser and start X from there, and I always get virtual
consoles. If you do a
journalctl -r
and then a
/vcon
do you see lines like
fedora dracut[128053]: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20528 Mar 13 13:01
usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup
fedora dracut[128053]: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 650 Mar 13 12:59
usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service
If the setup isn't occurring it would be a systemd bug. But check if
systemd is reporting errors when it tries to set the vconsoles up. And
try booting into multiuser by hitting a key during boot, and putting a
3 at the end of the boot line options to see if that sets them up.
Fedora recently dropped support from the kernel for the old fbcon and
replaced it with the new simple version. Might be related if it wasn't
taken into account. Or KDE might have decided virtual consoles were
obsolete and dropped support for them (unlikely).
Anyway some things to try, and a confirmation that it does work.