[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

[Don deJuan]

On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote:
> Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems
>> this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has
>> nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first.
>
> No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do. But that's completely different
> from vesafb, a linux driver. When you use vesafb and the nvidia driver together,
> you effectively have two drivers poking at the card at the same time. That
> problems can arise from that makes full sense.
>
> You can keep using vesafb. After all, the message is just that - a message - and
> not an error. It's just that if something breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
>
>
Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39