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siamer

Member

Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 132

start arch in vesa mode

Hi.

I'm using nvidia drivers but for example if I will brake something with them than how I can start arch in vesa mode (or nv module) ? Can I edit grub and add something like xorg=vesa ? Didn't work before for me... any ideas ? I know that I can start safe mode than change xorg etc. but I'm curious if it's possiblem to start normal mode in vesa mode when I will need it...

Regards,
siamer

fritz

Member

Registered: 2011-06-17

Posts: 38

Re: start arch in vesa mode

Do you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf? In that case just change/edit the driver from "nvidia" to "vesa":

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "vesa"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Last edited by fritz (2012-05-21 15:16:13)

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: start arch in vesa mode

grub has nothing to do with xorg so no, it won't work like this.

It should be enough to boot into the console and fix whatever needs fixing.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Runlevels