[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

[Arno Gaboury]

On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
> 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
>
Are you so sure?

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19.html:

First sentence: *The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports 
all standard VGA and VESA modes*