** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057093
Title:
Installing nvidia-current should blacklist gfxpayload
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
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.
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