Virtual Terminal has seen better days

From	Mike <debian@norgie.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Virtual Terminal has seen better days
Date	2024-06-14 19:00 +0200
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Folks,

I'm trying to resolve a long standing issue with my virtual consoles.
They're just a bit messed up.

The most pressing issue is that when I boot, after Grub, I get some
miminal output on the screen and then the screen turns off.  If I
blindly enter my userid and password and then type startx, the monitor
turns back on and X works in beautiful 4k glory.

I do get a bit of output to say that a couple of services failed to
start, so it seems that the monitor goes into power off just before the
login prompt should be displayed.

I had a fiddle with a setting in Grub which I think was probably the
wrong place and also /etc/default/console-setup, which sounds like a
sensible place to fiddle, although it didn't make any difference.

I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any pointers to get the
terminals looking vaguely sensible, please?  I think the first isse it
working out how to stop the screen turning off, which I assume is
because the display is out of range for the monitor.  I can't seen to
figure out how to change that.

It would perhaps be nice too to tidy up the systemd output but probably
best to get the display on first to aid debugging that.

If anyone could offer any pointers, I would be really grateful.

Kind regards,
Mike.

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Virtual Terminal has seen better days Mike <debian@norgie.net> - 2024-06-14 19:00 +0200
  Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-06-14 19:20 +0200
    Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Mike <debian@norgie.net> - 2024-06-14 19:30 +0200
      Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-06-17 14:50 +0200
    Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-14 19:50 +0200
      Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Mike <debian@norgie.net> - 2024-06-16 00:50 +0200
        Re: Virtual Terminal has seen better days Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-06-16 01:20 +0200

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