> On 15 Dec 2022, at 00:38, Michael S. Keller via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> I upgraded to kernel 6.0 via the testing repo.
>
> On one of my x86_64 machines, there is no console output after a certain point in the boot process, and ctrl-alt-Fn shows only a blank screen. ctrl-alt-F7 does not return to X11 (or the video card is asleep, don't know which). This host is still reachable across the network, and restarting X11 brings the GUI display back.
>
> With kernel 5.10, it behaved as I would expect, with virtual consoles accessible.
>
> I tried adding "consoleblank=0" to the kernel options, but that did not appear to help.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
> My video card is an nVidia GTX 760, and in case it helps, the driver is nvidia-tesla-470-driver (doesn't support newer).

Are you on stable/chimaera and using testing/daedalus for the kernel packages? Have you tried the 6.0 packages from chimaera-backports?

There is a slightly different version between the two and the backports version might be more compatible.

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=linux-image-amd64&x=submit

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Tom