On Sunday 11 May 2014 15:34:32 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when > >> I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB > >> screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press > >> Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a blank screen. > >> > >> I tried setting: > >> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text > >> > >> in /etc/default/grub, but that doesn't do anything. > >> > >> Halp! I need my consoles back! > > > > OK, figured it out. It's not possible to get a VGA text mode console > > with EFI. The reason is that EFI was designed by morons. The only way to > > get a console is to use a graphics mode framebuffer. But then my > > graphics driver complains: > > > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console > > NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver > > NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console > > NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in > > NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported. > > Yep, I see that on my desktop system as well ... never really got that > fixed.
Is this an EFI, or a NVidia problem? -- Regards, Mick
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