####Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9#### Come and chat on Googletalk On Jun 29, 2012 1:16 AM, "Kevin Chadwick" <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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 standard as do many embedded > drivers so it is supported indirectly. They certainly don't support > running both but then on the 172 driver mentioned they don't support > the recent xorg servers new abi either. > > If I was the OP I wouldn't waste time if there's is no problem beyond > a log from a closed source driver unless uvesafb offers benefits as > that won't be supported either as it's not Nvidia's code is it? > I am the OP and I agree with your opinion, thus I decided to ignore the Kernel error message. As there is NO decisive answer, neither an universally recognized setup, this is the way I decided to run my X server with my Nvidia graphic card and driver. My system MAY be instable thought, but I endorse the risk. Switching to Nouveau would be best indeed, but not at its current stage. ___________________________________________ > > Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. > ________________________________________________________
