[00:04] <xu-irc40w> Would that be appended to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT OR GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX?
[00:10] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: Different this time - Bios screen, when the bios splash screen begins to clear - shift key to get grub's attention (legacy system that is ) .. then e key for edit mode and arrow down to tht linux line .. I prefer to replace quiet splash, myself - ctl+X to continue the boot.
[00:11] <Bashing-om> tht/the*
[00:21] <xu-irc40w> Ah okay, just made the edit assuming ctrl+x saves the edit before boot (didn't see an option to save the modification)
[00:21] <xu-irc40w> That booted me into TTY 1 and wouldn't let me switch to TTY 7
[00:36] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: Well that isolates to a user land issue. But at this point be good to check the journal log for errors reported anywy, - to sart the GUI from ^ that terminal is anoter systeml command.
[00:36] <Bashing-om> another*
[00:42] <xu-irc40w> Would that be sudo systemctl isolate graphical?
[00:43] <xu-irc40w> That loads brings me back to the black screen with a blinking cursor
[00:45] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: No, to start the GUI from that TTY is systemctl set-default graphical ,
[00:48] <xu-irc40w> Okay, that did that same thing. Back to a black screen with a blinking cursor
[00:51] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: At this point I do suggest checking for boot errors - only as a matter of course. reboot to Grub's TTY and run ; ' journalctl -b |grep failed ' <-  to see if anything failed while booting up.
[00:53] <xu-irc40w> Okay, I can look
[00:57] <xu-irc40w> I really think it could be related to the graphics card/drivers still, that seems the be the only solution to this in the past. Is there a way to view and change the current graphics driver via terminal?
[00:59] <xu-irc40w> I just purged all the Nvidia packages, boithsd to recovery, repaired packages, updated grub (again with nomodeset) and rebooted, it loaded to TTY1 and the switched to TTY7 with a low resolution screen again 640x480 I think
[01:00] <xu-irc40w> *booted
[01:01] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: Depends on what the card is / Intel and AMD have the drivers in the kernel as loadble modules.
[01:05] <xu-irc40w> Yeah, the drivers seemed to be the issues last year when this happened. My bad for updating again once it was fixed. At this point I have no clue what driver to try. It's an old GeForce 9400 GT. Thoughts on how to resolve the resolution issue from this stage?
[01:08] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: Lemme go see what driver is needed for that card.
[01:09] <oerheks> i think it was supported by the 340 driver, which is obsolete and one can use the nouveau driver instead
[01:12] <Bashing-om> xu-irc40w: oerheks: Confirmed 340 driver - ouch. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
[10:24] <mi61> Hi
[13:38] <PeGaSuS> hey guys. I'm having a little fight with xfce4-terminal. I go to Edit > Preferences > Colors tab > Uncheck "Show bold text in bright colors" > Presets > Choose any preset > "Show bold text in bright colors" is automatically checked
[13:39] <PeGaSuS> how do I force it to stay unchecked even if I change preset?
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