Hello all, I have a laptop with openSUSE Leap 15.0 and an external monitor running nicely - if I use X. But I cannot use the virtual terminals on the external display. If I switch to a virtual terminal/console (e.g. by pressing STRG-ALT-F1), my monitor displays nothing and goes into powersave. On the laptop display I get a virtual terminal (crappy resolution, but that's not really an issue). Since I couldn't get the external display working with the default nouveau, I tried the proprietary drivers. I'm now running these RPMs: user@box:~> rpm -qa nvidia-* nvidia-computeG04-390.59-lp150.8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default-390.59_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.8.1.x86_64 nvidia-glG04-390.59-lp150.8.1.x86_64 My Graphics adapter is an "nVidia GM107GLM [Quadro M1200 Mobile]". If I understand correctly, I need a framebuffer device in order to use a virtual console. And an FB device seems to exist: user@box:~> ll /dev/fb0* crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 25. Mai 08:47 /dev/fb0 box:~ # fbtest && echo YES YES I'm unsure though whether the configuration is correct: box:~ # cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/mode box:~ # cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes U:800x600p-75 box:~ # cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset N Writing anything to 'mode' doesn't work: box:~ # echo U:1280x720p-30 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/mode -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument In /etc/default/grub I have GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/system/swap splash=verbose" GRUB_TERMINAL="console" GRUB_GFXMODE=auto GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep I already tried appending 'nomodeset' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/system/swap splash=verbose nomodeset" which didn't work. Switching to GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm" doesn't seem make to a difference either. I'd appreciate any hints on how to getting my virtual consoles to work on the external display. Somewhat related: How do I switch back to nouveau? Simply uninstall the NVIDIA RPMs? Or is there some option/configuration to be set? Thanks and regards -- Till -- Dipl.-Inform. Till Dörges doerges@pre-sense.de Tel. +49 - 40 - 244 2407 - 14 Fax +49 - 40 - 244 2407 - 24 PRESENSE Technologies GmbH Sachsenstr. 5, D-20097 HH Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors AG Hamburg, HRB 107844 Till Dörges, Jürgen Sander USt-IdNr.: DE263765024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org