On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote:
Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes:
After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first.
No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do. But that's completely different from vesafb, a linux driver. When you use vesafb and the nvidia driver together, you effectively have two drivers poking at the card at the same time. That problems can arise from that makes full sense.
You can keep using vesafb. After all, the message is just that - a message - and not an error. It's just that if something breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39
Are you so sure?
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19....:
First sentence: *The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports all standard VGA and VESA modes* Well the link I sent was from an Nvidia employee posting about these issues, so yes I am sure. Also why are you pointing to a readme for
On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: the legacy version?
It has been stated by Nvidia themselves in other places as well, that VESA just "happened" to work, was not "officially" supported. So take that as you will, but from what I have read and heard from Nvidia this is the case, even googling reveals the same information going all the way back to around 2003. But no point in arguing the semantics about this, I feel the information I found and gotten from Nvidia directly is more than sufficient, your choice if you want to listen to me and other Nvidia employees posting on this issue. You can easily get the same info regardless of what their README states. Or if you have any buddies in the Linux department at nvidia, shoot them an email and you will get the same response from them, it just happened to work.
So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card: -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot (couldn't find any trick to het an higher resolution, and I tried alomost all I found) -stick with the VESA mode and this error message . Am I correct?