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 [ 27.887267] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in [ 27.887268] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
-- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
