[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Tue Jun 19 01:00:57 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:25:07PM -0700, Don deJuan wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote:
> >
> >GRUB2 documentation is notably difficult to read, but from
> >http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Simple-configuration.html#Simple-configuration
> >I
> >guess that the relevant option to disable this feature is to use
> >"GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text"
> >instead of "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep".
> Thanks again for your input and time to find those links to share.
> The last with text was ticket for me. No need for vga=0 with that.
> 
> The only downfall though with having to do this is if I go to a
> different TTY the text is massive, I get why it is just sucks, I
> liked having normal size text when on the terminal.
> 
> Again thank you, hopefully Nvidia will get this sorted out soon and
> can go back to the old method.

I don't think nvidia is going to sort this out, hence the warning
message. On the other hand, you can stick with the high resolution tty
for now, as it is not guaranteed to break. If it does, then you can
switch to the lower resolution.


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