[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

[Arno Gaboury]

On 06/27/2012 07:55 PM, Thomas Jost wrote:
> Le 27 juin 2012 à 17:07 CEST, Arno Gaboury a écrit :
>> So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card:
>> -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau
>> -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot
>> (couldn't find any trick to het an higher resolution, and I tried
>> alomost all I found)
>> -stick with the VESA mode and  this error message .
>>
>> Am I correct?
> On my laptop, before switching to nouveau, I used uvesafb together with
> the nvidia driver without any issue (1680x1050 console, yay!). You may
> want to give it a try.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb
>
> Regards,
I was in fact going this way yesterady, when I finally gave up after 
hours and hours of reading and testing.
I will give a try.