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
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Installing nvidia-current should blacklist gfxpayload
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