Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-30 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jun 29, 2012 2:12 AM, arnaud gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Switching to Nouveau would be best indeed, but not at its current stage. Why? Do you have problems running it? I [unfortunately] have several systems with nvidia cards, of varying age/caliber, all running nouveau with

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-29 Thread arnaud gaboury
Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9 Come and chat on Googletalk On Jun 29, 2012 1:16 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do. But that's completely different from vesafb, a linux driver. Your right and you cleared up

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do. But that's completely different from vesafb, a linux driver. Your right and you cleared up the confusion somewhbut that's a little unfair. I believe all cards MUST support VESA. The vesafb driver isn't supported directly but it uses the VESA

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/26/2012 09:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are meant to support since decades. Running both

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are meant to support since decades. Running both

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Maybe they have more 3d nouveau features enabled than default, but I doubt it, anyone know. There's a second stage nouveau Xorg driver. It may be that? Anyone use that and not have a delay switching to console? -- Why not do

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Uroš Vampl
Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. No, it supports the vesa standard.

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 04:11 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here,

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:07 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: After lots of reading,

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Uroš Vampl
Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806postcount=39 Are you so sure? http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-19.html:

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806postcount=39 Are you so sure?

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Uroš Vampl
Don deJuan donjuansjiz at gmail.com writes: I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary. I think you're the one mixing up what we

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:26 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Don deJuan donjuansjiz at gmail.com writes: I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary. I

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread arnaud gaboury
Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9 Come and chat on Googletalk On Jun 27, 2012 5:22 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com writes: Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Jost
Le 27 juin 2012 à 17:07 CEST, Arno Gaboury a écrit : So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card: -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot (couldn't find any trick to het an higher resolution, and

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/27/2012 07:55 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: Le 27 juin 2012 à 17:07 CEST, Arno Gaboury a écrit : So to sum up this thread, I am left with 3 options with a Nvidia card: -uninstall Nvidia driver and install Nouveau -run Nvidia in VGA mode with a low resolution console mode at boot (couldn't find

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/26/2012 09:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual fix for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it broke. If it wasn't huge before then you

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 01:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual fix for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/26/12 at 09:19pm, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If it wasn't huge before then you were either running nouveau or vesa framebuffer on the console and Nvidia in the desktop. This warning is likely due to the fact that running a framebuffer and Nvidia used to crash linux. It can probably? be