nvidia driver with KMS and fbset?

graysky · 2010-08-29 01:53:27

I read several wiki articles and wanted to try KMS with my nvidia driver so I renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else and rebooted. My terminal seems to be running in a rather low resolution. When I query with fbset, I get:

$ fbset
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

Are KMS and nvidia incompatible at this point in time or is there something I'm not setting up properly?

schen · 2010-08-29 02:04:24

Yes, I believe that KMS is not enabled for nvidia proprietary. If you want KMS, try nouveau.

karol · 2010-08-29 13:11:55

What do you want, graysky? High resolution - use 'vga=' on the kernel line.

jskier · 2010-08-30 20:13:21

karol wrote:

What do you want, graysky? High resolution - use 'vga=' on the kernel line.

This is not advisable for KMS (which the NVIDIA driver does not support anyway).

Per the wiki, if using KMS and you are having resolution problems, use "fbset" which is found in the extra repo.

graysky · 2010-08-30 20:34:53

Thanks for the replies, all. I didn't realize that the nvidia package didn't support KMS. No biggie.

karol · 2010-08-30 21:51:43

jskier wrote:

karol wrote:
What do you want, graysky? High resolution - use 'vga=' on the kernel line.
This is not advisable for KMS (which the NVIDIA driver does not support anyway).
Per the wiki, if using KMS and you are having resolution problems, use "fbset" which is found in the extra repo.

I'm using nvidia-173xx and fbset returns "open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory".
Does it work for you?

Gusar · 2010-08-31 08:49:00

If you want to use vesafb, you do need vga=xxx
If you want to use uvesafb, it's video=uvesafb:1680x1050-32@60 (or your desired resolution of course) and you also need v86d in an initrd.

With both of these the desired resolution needs to be in the graphic card's vbios, which on nvidia cards tends to not be the case.

mikesd · 2010-08-31 09:25:42

Gusar wrote:

If you want to use vesafb, you do need vga=xxx
If you want to use uvesafb, it's video=uvesafb:1680x1050-32@60 (or your desired resolution of course) and you also need v86d in an initrd.
With both of these the desired resolution needs to be in the graphic card's vbios, which on nvidia cards tends to not be the case.

On my GT8600 uvesafb gives me a native 1680x1050 frame buffer while using the nVidia binary blob. Works a treat.

shemz · 2010-08-31 09:43:29

I get native resolution with simple vesafb. Also works with plymouth. I haven't tried fbcondecor, but I guess it should also work.

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#1 2010-08-29 01:53:27

nvidia driver with KMS and fbset?

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