No tty with nvidia-340. Nouveau works fine.
by enigma9o7 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5HA44)
I have already searched and tried pretty much everything, a couple different times over the years searching and trying things and have never resolved this.
I have Sony VPCF115FM gen 1 i7 laptop with GT 330M GPU. When I use the appropriate proprietary nvidia driver, then if I switch to tty i.e. ctrl+alt+F2 the screen goes blank. (I can in fact login blind and execute commands, just cannot see anything.). ctrl+alt+F7 all is well again.
The only people with exact problem I find when searching are from many years ago and they resolved with newer version of driver. I'm using much later version than them, and also what I understand to be the final update by nvidia for this driver which only supports up to linux kernel 5.4. Which is fine.
I happen to have another amd desktop computer with a video card that uses exact same driver, but it has nvidia splash screen during boot, and tty works. This problematic Sony has neither.
Code:$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT216M [GeForce GT 330M]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.20.8 ) driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@59.94hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 330M/PCIe/SSE2
version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108
I have Sony VPCF115FM gen 1 i7 laptop with GT 330M GPU. When I use the appropriate proprietary nvidia driver, then if I switch to tty i.e. ctrl+alt+F2 the screen goes blank. (I can in fact login blind and execute commands, just cannot see anything.). ctrl+alt+F7 all is well again.
The only people with exact problem I find when searching are from many years ago and they resolved with newer version of driver. I'm using much later version than them, and also what I understand to be the final update by nvidia for this driver which only supports up to linux kernel 5.4. Which is fine.
I happen to have another amd desktop computer with a video card that uses exact same driver, but it has nvidia splash screen during boot, and tty works. This problematic Sony has neither.
Code:$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT216M [GeForce GT 330M]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.20.8 ) driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@59.94hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 330M/PCIe/SSE2
version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108