** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057093
Title:
Installing nvidia-current
Nvidia now prints this in dmesg every time:
[ 27.887261] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA
console
[ 27.887263] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[ 27.887265] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other
console
Some modest observations on #2
- In almost 7 years of using Ubuntu (all with Nvidia binary drivers)
full graphics freezes have been very rare and hardly associable with
framebuffer
- In these 6+ years suspend has not been usable even once. Now i tried
it with VGA console running (in hope, that
This change has been applied in quantal and as a direct result has made
boot splash unusable for all users when the nvidia drivers are installed
(bug #1063969). This is not something that should have been changed
during freeze due to a vague concern that the driver does not interact
well.
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Hi Steve,
While the NVIDIA driver often happens to work with consoles other than
the standard VGA text mode console without any user-visible symptoms,
any console configuration besides VGA text mode is not supported by the
driver, and use of any alternative consoles is directly linked, in many
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
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