[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

Don deJuan donjuansjiz at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 13:16:55 EDT 2012


On 06/16/2012 05:45 AM, gt wrote:
> 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.
>

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.



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