[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

[arnaud gaboury]

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On Jun 27, 2012 5:22 PM, "Don deJuan" <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote:
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>> Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>>>> 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
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>>>
>>> First sentence: *The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports
>>> all standard VGA and VESA modes*
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>>
>> 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.

I am the one who used the word "mode" when I wanted to talk about
Framebuffer. My words were not precise enough, as I fully understand what a
mode is.
I shall learn to be more precise.