{"id":1366,"date":"2014-08-05T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2014-08-05T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:06:54","slug":"blank-tty-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Blank TTY on Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennings, the new Lenovo PC has presented a few challenges.  The most recent one is no display on the TTYs.  Although the default interface is graphical, pressing <code>CTL+ALT+F1<\/code> (or <code>F2<\/code> through <code>F6<\/code>) will get you a text console.  This is useful for quick operations or when something wonky happens with X.  But doing so on Jennings presented a black screen with no video.  I was curious to see if this was a display-only issue since Jennings has an NVidia card in it.  I pressed <code>CTL+ALT+F1<\/code> and entered my log-in, then <code>top<\/code>.  I jumped back to the X session with <code>CTL+ALT+F7<\/code> and entered <code>ps aux<\/code>.  Sure enough, top was running.  I went back to the TTY, killed top and logged out.  Googling for &#8220;ubuntu 14.04 blank tty&#8221; turned up some <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/162535\/why-does-switching-to-the-tty-give-me-a-blank-screen\">advice that Grub may be using a graphical log in that&#8217;s incompatible with my video card<\/a>.  The cure is to edit <code>\/etc\/default\/grub<\/code> as root, uncomment out the line <code>GRUB_TERMINAL=console<\/code>, then <code>sudo update-grub<\/code> and reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennings, the new Lenovo PC has presented a few challenges. The most recent one is no display on the TTYs. Although the default interface is graphical, pressing CTL+ALT+F1 (or F2 through F6) will get you a text console. This is useful for quick operations or when something wonky happens with X. But doing so on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}