Public bug reported: The NVIDIA driver does not interact well with consoles other than plain VGA text consoles, such as vesafb. NVIDIA recommends that users run VGA text consoles in conjunction with the NVIDIA driver.
Many distributions, such as Ubuntu, enable a framebuffer console by default. It appears that Ubuntu has a mechanism (via update-grub- gfxpayload) to blacklist the framebuffer console for specific hardware. It appears that the nvidia-current package includes a gfxpayload rules file, which includes a (commented out) example rule to blacklist the framebuffer console for all NVIDIA devices. I confirmed that after installing the nvidia-current package and rebooting, the system was using a vesafb framebuffer console. I edited /usr/share/nvidia-current/nvidia-current.grub-gfxpayload and uncommented the example rule, ran update-grub-gfxpayload, rebooted, and confirmed that the system was using a VGA text console. This rule should be enabled by default as part of installing the nvidia- current package. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057093 Title: Installing nvidia-current should blacklist gfxpayload To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1057093/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp