diff --git a/changelog/bugfixes/2025-08-11-drm-console.md b/changelog/bugfixes/2025-08-11-drm-console.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..718c5c36167
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/bugfixes/2025-08-11-drm-console.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Reenabled console support for DRM drivers, so that with the virtio graphics driver the interactive console is shown again after boot ([Flatcar#1834](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/1834))
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/bootengine/bootengine-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/bootengine/bootengine-9999.ebuild
index 3fdd628d7de..341d7f0909a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/bootengine/bootengine-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/bootengine/bootengine-9999.ebuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/flatcar/bootengine.git"
 if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
 	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
 else
-	EGIT_COMMIT="1eb892c1970a158247b3709f81d03b44de7d806e" # flatcar-master
+	EGIT_COMMIT="31ba2964ce5e77ae5553eb0a3624afcc7078bb09" # flatcar-master
 	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 x86"
 fi
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-modules/files/commonconfig-6.12 b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-modules/files/commonconfig-6.12
index 32312c1cba9..1e19ff41f1f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-modules/files/commonconfig-6.12
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-modules/files/commonconfig-6.12
@@ -169,9 +169,12 @@ CONFIG_DM_VERITY=m
 CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m
 CONFIG_DNS_RESOLVER=y
 CONFIG_DRM=m
+CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
+CONFIG_DRM_QXL=m
+CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=m
+CONFIG_DRM_TTM_HELPER=m
 CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU=m
 CONFIG_DST_CACHE=y
-# CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION is not set
 CONFIG_DUMMY=m
 CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
 CONFIG_E100=m