On 06/27/2012 08:07 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote:
On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote:
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*
Well the link I sent was from an Nvidia employee posting about these
issues, so yes I am sure. Also why are you pointing to a readme for
the legacy version?
It has been stated by Nvidia themselves in other places as well, that
VESA just "happened" to work, was not "officially" supported. So take
that as you will, but from what I have read and heard from Nvidia this
is the case, even googling reveals the same information going all the
way back to around 2003. But no point in arguing the semantics about
this, I feel the information I found and gotten from Nvidia directly
is more than sufficient, your choice if you want to listen to me and
other Nvidia employees posting on this issue. You can easily get the
same info regardless of what their README states. Or if you have any
buddies in the Linux department at nvidia, shoot them an email and you
will get the same response from them, it just happened to work.
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?
You could also use the xf86-video-nv driver, but yes those are my
understandings of this issue as well.
