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 cases, to stability problems and graphical corruption.
Here are some recent examples of issues users have encountered as a result of using framebuffer consoles with the NVIDIA driver; these symptoms were observed with a framebuffer console present, and absent when using a VGA text mode console on the same system: - Complete graphics freeze in some situations - recoverable by restarting X. - Inability to restore console after suspend/resume. - Scribbling of data from the console on top of the X screen driven by the primary GPU. Users shouldn't be exposed to such issues in the name of graphical boot splashes. -- 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
