On 06/17/2012 09:10 PM, gt wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote:
Are you still seeing the output in the newest one that came after this update push? I am still seeing it. Not sure I really get what the issue even is.
Just upgraded to the latest driver, and yes i am still seeing it as well. The issue is that nvidia has decided to warn people that these framebuffer drivers may cause problems. They weren't supported earlier too, but worked anyhow. But recently they are causing problems for some people so nvidia thought it would be best to warn people about the use of these drivers.
You must be having a vga= entry in your boot parameters, as do i. I tried with vga=0 and didn't see this message.
See the following message by Uroš for more details.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:44:10AM +0000, Uroš Vampl wrote:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39
Basically, vesafb with the nvidia driver was never supported. It used to work, it may still work, but that's by pure chance.
I do not seem to find any mention of VGA in the boot parameters. The only place I see it mentioned is in grub.cfg where it loads the modules before you even put your kernel info (insmod vga). But I added what you said vga=0, to the kernel parameters and the message is now gone. Maybe its been to long the past couple days for me but I still am not sure I get this issue. I have no other video drivers even installed on the system and the video card is a pretty recent one. Anyways I will look more into it tomorrow after some rest. Thanks for point out the earlier reply I missed it, or did not properly sink in.