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pashazz

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Registered: 2014-11-10

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Uvesafb + Nvidia proprietary. Is it possible?

I would like to have high-resolution console with NVidia proprietary driver. To accomplish that I'm trying to use uvesafb. So what I've done:

yaourt -S v86d

/etc/modprobe.d/uvesafb.conf:

mode_option=1920x1200-32 scroll=ywrap

It is the native resolution

I don't have vga parameters in my gummiboot configuration nor in modprobe.d (folowed archwiki page)

So I've made mkinitcpio,conf look like that

FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/uvesafb.conf"
HOOKS="base colors udev v86d autodetect modconf block resume filesystems keyboard fsck"

So I've got (after running mkinitcpio and rebooting) this:

 journalctl -b --no-pager | grep uvesafb
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: NVIDIA Corporation, BIOS-P/N@N8857, Chip Rev   , OEM: NVIDIA, VBE v3.0
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: scrolling: redraw
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xf1000000
ноя 10 02:46:33 primum kernel: uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -5

Question:

It is possible to fix my configuration and make it work with my card (NVidia GTX 570 and nvidia kernel driver)

or

at least to enlarge the resolution to, say, 1600x1200? Now I have 800x600.

jasonwryan

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Re: Uvesafb + Nvidia proprietary. Is it possible?

Works fine on my 9600GT at 1680x1050 using nvidia-304xx...

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pashazz

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Re: Uvesafb + Nvidia proprietary. Is it possible?

Works fine on my 9600GT at 1680x1050 using nvidia-304xx...

Configs?

jasonwryan

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Re: Uvesafb + Nvidia proprietary. Is it possible?

As per the wiki, with this in uvesafb.conf:

options uvesafb mode_option=1680x1050-32 scroll=ywrap

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pashazz

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Re: Uvesafb + Nvidia proprietary. Is it possible?

I found out that there's efifb which interfere with uvesafb. I am afraid that the only way to disable efifb is to recompile the kernel... Is there a convenient way to disable efifb without recompiling the kernel for each release? Futhermore, is it safe for my system which relies on /boot UEFI partition?