[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

[Don deJuan]

On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote:
>> 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
>
> Nope, no uefi. It's a pentium 4, with nvidia geforce 210 card.
>

Are you also seeing this in dmesg as well?

nvidia 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
vgaarb: device changed decodes: 
PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  295.59  Wed Jun  6 
21:19:40 PDT 2012