Is there anyway to get a framebuffer running on nvidia cards when using the Nvidia closed drivers ?
I am sure my SuSE box used to run rivafb as this used to generate loads of warnings about the world ending whenever I tried to build new Nvidia drivers. Ubuntu however seems really reluctant to let me have a framebuffer device..presumably for the same reason as the Matrox equipped machine at work is running one by default.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Is there anyway to get a framebuffer running on nvidia cards when using the Nvidia closed drivers ?
I assume you want to use the framebuffer for console graphics/more console real estate, in which case there is at least one working solution.
I use vesafb-tng in my kernel, with video=vesafb:1024x768-24@75 alongside the binary nVidia drivers I use in X.
I did, however, roll my own kernel to do this. The patch was included with my kernel (I run Gentoo rather than Ubuntu), but if its not available in your kernel as-is you will find vesafb-tng patches here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/
I believe there are instructions for running the framebuffer from a module (you would then be able to use your stock Ubuntu Kernel) but thats something I haven't tried.
HTH,
Jim
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