Timeline for What causes xserver output to go blank when switching to tty console?
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:41 | comment | added | Jim | Interesting. I wonder if that has something to do with combination of card, monitor, and assumed colorspaces. For example, I use a high-end Dell monitor, supports 10-bit color, etc. Nvidia 1070. But OS colorspace mapping, including Windows 10, is a mess. No matter what I try, I can't set a colorspace where all apps have realistic colors. Chrome browser showing sRGB colors, for example, seem impossibly bright and vibrant. But photos look cartoonish. On low-end Dell monitor on same card, they are fine (much duller but realistic). Who knows how that stuff works. :-D | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 23:19 | comment | added | OB7DEV | Another thing I've noticied is some GFX cards have more crispy console than others. I'm using a vega frontier card and it is way crispier for console work than my 1080ti. The TTY colors seem brighter than X11, like they stand out more. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 2:14 | comment | added | Jim | Huh, I've never noticed that. (I've used text-mode displays since mono CRTs, then CGA, EGA, VGA, headless linux boxes, etc.) But the bigger issue here though, is VM doesn't meet your requirement. I hate it when answers and comments present all kinds of "you shouldn't want or even need to do that because...". So, I won't do that either. You could easily be right! I hope you figure it out and I'd love to know an answer too. | |
| Sep 1, 2018 at 10:41 | comment | added | OB7DEV | I think there would still be a difference. When you have a dedicated graphics card runnig the TTY console it is more crisp than any desktop environment I've seen before. I believe this is because it runs directly from the framebuffer device but I don't know the real technical explanation to why it looks so much cleaner. Even if I VM'ed it, and was running TTY in the VM, the VM is still being displayed through a display manager (whether windows or linux) and not being driven directly from the gfx card itself. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 9:04 | comment | added | Jim | Oh and you'd have to SSH back into the VM host to complete the solution. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | Jim | I see. So then what do you think of the virtual machine idea? I've done that and it works well. (Actually I do it every day on more than one machine, as my default working environment, a little differently. The host is usually [not always] Windows, and the guest is usually Xubuntu. But occasionally I'll do straight VT on the VM, particularly for lightweight ZFS hosting. I don't think it picks up the virtual-virtual-terminal's screen dimensions, but I believe that can be forced in grub.) That could in high likelihood get exactly what it sounds like you're looking for. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 4:58 | comment | added | OB7DEV | I also do this, and its easy to get full screen window for me because I use xmonad. But the difference is a real TTY console has much crispier colors than an X11 server console. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 2:58 | history | answered | Jim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |