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nesk

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Registered: 2011-03-31

Posts: 187

[solved] tty1 (and other tty-s) on second GPU

I have a PC with Intel iGPU driving one monitor and AMD GPU driving another monitor.
When I disable display manager (SDDM), after boot tty1 appears only on the monitor connected to Intel iGPU.

Can I specify which GPUs the tty-s will display on?
This sounds rather simple, but I have not been able to find an answer on the web.

Last edited by nesk (2018-04-14 10:11:00)

nesk

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Registered: 2011-03-31

Posts: 187

Re: [solved] tty1 (and other tty-s) on second GPU

After reading https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt I added fbcon=map:10 fbcon=font:VGA8x8 to kernel parameters and it worked - tty1 is displayed on AMD card and tty2 on Intel iGPU.