On 11/06/14 17:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Thanks. I have a fairly old kernel for other reasons and I installed v86d in 2011 and it has not changed since. I use udesafb because I want a frame buffer so I can get a lot more than 80x25 in a virtual console. Iget 64x160. I also need something which will net the nvidia driver work since this is the card I have. I did try the noveau driver, but it did not give me as large of a screen and nvidia driver did not like that driver. I can't remember what it complained about, but it means no X at all.
If you're not booting in EFI mode, then you can use vesafb instead. This doesn't require v86d and doesn't even require an initrd.
uvesafb is mostly for non-PC or generally platforms where a BIOS is not available (EFI on a PC also lacks BIOS), and it achieves that through v86d. vesafb uses the BIOS directly, so v86d is not needed.
