[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

[Don deJuan]

On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote:
> Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>>> Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work.
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>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39
>>>
>> Are you so sure?
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>> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19.html:
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>> First sentence: *The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports
>> all standard VGA and VESA modes*
>
> Wow, you guys are now mixing up *three* things!
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> Like I said, one thing is the vesa standard, and the other is a linux driver
> called vesafb. These are not one and the same! Now you've added a third thing
> into the mix - vesa modes. They are modes defined by the standard.
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I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, 
only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, 
only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary.

I think you're the one "mixing" up what we have written.