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 might possibly have something to do with it). Result was kernel panic straight "out of the box" :) Will not try more. - Have not seen anything like that in last years --- As I use console more than occasionally, it is just plain impossible to use VGA resolution on big 1920x1200 monitor. Now there is just one more inconvinience to comment out these blacklistings if some kind of override can not be established for this. It may be OK to make things to comply to nvidia-upstream requirements for "default user", but there has to be some way to override this for users who need this. I know that this is not supposed to be done in this way, but unfortunately our life is often full of these things. If this thing could be resolved in the right way, it would be even better. Current solution - even being made right way - is also ruining user experience for any new Ubuntu user. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057093 Title: Installing nvidia-current should blacklist gfxpayload Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 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. 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/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
