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 VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported. Googling let me to many forum posts about this issue with Nvidia card and driver, but I couldn't find any clear answer. I have tried all the cited tricks in my *grub* file: -add *vga=0*, or *vga=795* (1208x1024), or *video=visa:off vga=normal* -*GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=console*, *GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text*, *GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep* and whatever else I couldn't remember, but nothing changed about this message. As far as I understand, Nvidia does NOT support vesa framebuffer, but only vga. Fine. My system is NOT using VGA console. Fine. But how do I need ton configure my *grub* file ? Here are the concerned line from my file : *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x1024* Please help as keeping running X like this is not recommanded. TY.
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.
The only other difference is I have GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x32 in mine, but with running text this setting is not used, at least that is my understanding.
