[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

Jason Steadman mail at meyithi.com
Sat Jun 16 01:55:10 EDT 2012


On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt <static.vortex at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the
> following in the dmesg output:
>
> NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
> NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
> NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
> NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
> NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
>
> Any idea what this is about. Seems to be about the framebuffer driver.
> But earlier no configuration was needed for that. Moreover the virtual
> console seems to be working fine.
>
> Anyone else got a similar message in the log?
>

UEFI install by any chance? I ask because the message correlates to
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2543252&postcount=13

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Jason Steadman


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