Re: Text consoles stay black

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:44:13 +0100, ubi staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:35:07 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:
Which console are you using? Straight VGA, VESA framebuffer, nv
framebuffer, or something else? I've had some problems with console
switching and nvidia, but that was a long time ago, around the 6627
I'm using the vicious and wicked 8776 build with a 2.6.17-11-generic
from Ubuntu. I specified the console resolution with the kernel
parameter vga=791, that means I'm using a VESA framebuffer, right?

Yep, vga=NNN gets you straight VGA text-only modes if NNN < 0x100 and
VESA framebuffer modes if NNN >= 0x300. Docs are in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt . Build 8776 of the evil
nvidia modules works fine here, been using it ever since it was marked
stable in Gentoo.

I haven't had any problems with straight VGA or VESA framebuffer and
a TwinView-enabled nVidia card for the last 1.5 years.
I just tried setting vga=normal in my kernel options and the problem
is gone, but a 80x25 lines console makes no real sense on my 19"
screen...

If X is running, virtual consoles are sorta superfluous as you can
always start another xterm/konsole/eterm. If you want something that's
faster than VESA framebuffer and more than 80x25, see what you can get
from vga=ask. HTH,

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