Boot on TTY2 and linux-lts

gabbo93 · 2024-06-03 20:48:10

Hi, I'm new and I'm not sure if this is the right section.

I have successfully installed Arch Linux, along with SDDM and KDE Plasma. Nvidia Drivers work flawlessly (I can even play Steam games or use Retroarch) and the experience is quite perfect. But I noticed two things:

First, the system boots on TTY2, and if I try to go to TTY1 (ctrl+alt+F1) I get something like "/dev/nvme0n1p1 : clean, 849958/13516800 files, 8182641/54037900 blocks".
I rebooted and I removed the "quiet" entry from GRUB to check what was happening and apparently it's stuck when it tries to load the display manager.

The thing is, I don't really care to solve it since in TTY2 everything is perfect, is there a way to "move" my working session on TTY1 and perhaps reset the broken one so that I get the terminal like the other TTYs?

Also, what's the difference between linux and linux-lts as packages? What do you recommend to a newbie? Can I switch to one or another easily?

Thanks a lot in advance!

seth · 2024-06-04 14:09:43

apparently it's stuck when it tries to load the display manager … I don't really care to solve it since in TTY2 everything is perfect

=> Disable the display manager?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Displa … ay_manager

If you want to know why sddm fails, check the system journal - but possibly https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#B … phics_card
=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start
Also enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting - use the "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" kernel parameter

The LTS kernel is an older version of the kernel that only gets maintainence patches (ideally…) - it can serve as backup or just less agile alternative (esp. if you've older hardware)
You can install both in parallel and select the at the bootloader, nb. that you'll need the nvidia-lts package as well.

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#1 2024-06-03 20:48:10

Boot on TTY2 and linux-lts

#2 2024-06-04 14:09:43

Re: Boot on TTY2 and linux-lts

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