On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:36:52PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > To add to the nvidia issues, after update to the latest driver (nvidia > 260.19.12-1) the machine stops during boot due to (Invalid video mode, press > enter to see list....) > > Pressing enter then lists the available modes. However, when I enter > one of the > listed modes, it is rejected and I get prompted again with the (Invalid video > mode, press enter to see list....). > > I don't know whether this is a bug, a KMS thing, or what, but I have > never had > any problems passing vga=0x31a on the kernel line with the nvidia driver > before. > (I know with ATI, KMS early is recommended, and no vga= on the kernel line) > > Is anybody else seeing this? Should I just remove the vga= line? > > After letting the (Invalid video mode, press enter to see list....) > prompt > time-out, it all continues fine and the nvidia driver loads without issue. > What > say the experts? > >
Specify the mode as decimal instead of hex -- in this case it'd be 794. dave reisner
