Over the years, I had accumulated a bunch of kernel options in the grub
configuration, all to stop Nouveau confusing things. I had to remove
them. I edited /etc/default/grub and rebuilt grub's config
files using grub2-mkconfig. Nouveau seems to be good enough now (but I no
longer stress it with a million FireFox tabs).
Old (all one line):
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=6be9f593-abf3-4151-8b0a-8135946edbb4
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core
nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
New:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=6be9f593-abf3-4151-8b0a-8135946edbb4"
Unfortunately, grub itself used a video configuration that displayed
illegible characters. Again, a change to /etc/default/grub and a
grub2-mkconfig
Old:
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
New:
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768
I tried 1920x1080 but that didn't help. I don't know why.
I don't really know why "console" doesn't work or what "gfxterm" is. I
got this from
<https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/grub-menu-screen-resolution/138544/2>
Not sure if this is a suitable workaround, but...
Would using a different bootloader make your life easier?
For what seems like decades I've not given much heed to grub, which replaced lilo, but it's been starting to show its age.
Installing CachyOS introduced me to a number of alternatives, including the recommended one which is limine.
Maybe even going back to lilo, which doesn't try at all to be fancy, might be an option.
- Evan