[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Sat Jun 16 08:45:12 EDT 2012


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:40:08AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote:
> 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

No, i am not getting any similar message.


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