I’ve been searching for the whole weekend to try to find how to do this, and have not been successful.
I want to disable the GUI completely, and have a HDMI Monitor and Connected Keyboard usable as a login console. I want the login: prompt to come up on the attached HDMI Monitor once it finishes booting.
Hardware: Orin AGX with ConnectTech Rogue
Jetpack - 5.1.3 (Cannot use 6.0 yet due to our software not supporting it yet)
I have done the following:
Flashed the complete default package following instructions from ConnectTech. When it boots, I get an active monitor with a Black screen. I applied ‘sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target’, and it does the same thing. Boots, shows kernel scroll, then screen goes black (but still active) and stays there. CTRL-ALT-F1 through F6 do nothing. Serial Console works fine.
Created a new minimal root FS following these instructions: Root File System — Jetson Linux Developer Guide documentation
Then applied CT BSP. Same behavior as above once flashed. Monitor is active but black, CTRL-ALT-F1 through F6 do nothing. Serial Console works fine.
Created and flashed a Desktop rootfs using the above instructions, because why not.
Once flashed, it boots to desktop fine, I get all the graphical fun times. Yay.
I then tried to DISABLE the desktop using ‘sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target’
It goes right back to the exact same behavior as before on the next reboot
Monitor is active but black, CTRL-ALT-F1 through F6 do nothing. Serial Console works fine.
For what it’s worth, Yes, my keyboard works… it lights up, and shows it being attached in dmesg, and it and my mouse worked fine when the desktop came up.
It looks like none of the default filesystems attach a console to the HDMI output for whatever reason, and I have not found out how to do it myself. Any help would be appreciated. I just want to use a keyboard and monitor for a console, lol.