On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:20:45 +0000, Jonathan A. wrote:

> What do you use on the VT? A raw VGA console? The rivafb driver for
> framebuffer? Generic framebuffer? IIUIC, the problems that people have
> been reporting switching between X and the VC while running the NVIDIA
> proprietary drivers have generally been attributed to some conflict
> between the NVIDIA X driver and the rivafb driver.

> Anyone have comments on that? Anyone running a plain VGA console and
> *still* having problems? I'd like to know, because I've been holding
> off on upgrading to the newest version of the evil NVIDIA binary-only
> driver for just this reason but, if the VC switching problem truly
> doesn't affect those who run a raw VGA console, then I should be OK.

I have the FB in console capability compiled. IMHO the disadvantages of
using it outeigh the advantage of seeing the penguin. For one I prefer to
see *all* my boot messages as they scroll by and you lose some using VGA
mode. OTOH in regular test mode you can just hit SHIFT-Page Up and go to
the top of the messages. Dmesg does not give me the same exact output.

IOW, my logs in /var/log, shift-page up and dmesg all have slightly more
or less information. Shift-Page Up gives the most useful for my purposes.

Even worse is the damn splash screen that Mandrake uses. First thing I
did with that distro is get rid of that crap.

But the real issue is do you *need* VGA in a text console (not in
Xas they are resizable anyway). If so go for it. If not, IMO it's useless.