[EN] [Solved] Console resolution with Nvidia driver.

[Taliesin]

Hi all,

I've recently installed the nvidia driver, for the purpose of running a particular game within Wine, "Neverwinter Online".

However the console resolution with the Nvidia driver is quite poor.

From what I've read so far, unlike the Noveau driver, Nvidia does not include framebuffer support with their driver.

I have found the following post on the Debian support forums, Grub2 and Framebuffer

The thread suggests a number of workarounds, that require editing configuration files and then updating grub.

I was wondering if any members know of a more 'elegant' solution.

If not are any of the methods from the Debian support forum thread currently valid.

Cheers.

[towo]

I was wondering if any members know of a more 'elegant' solution.

There is no more elegant solution.
And btw, the propritary driver does not support framebuffer.

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[   19.873092] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[   19.873099] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[   19.873107] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[   19.873110] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[   19.873112] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.


[Taliesin]

There is no more elegant solution.

Indeed, thankyou for the quick reply Towo

And btw, the propritary driver does not support framebuffer.

As I have read, thankyou for confirming this point.

[dibl]

That Debian Forums post is pretty old.  Here is what is working today in my /etc/default/grub file:

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# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x1024
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
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This is an Nvidia GTX-480 card, on a NEC 2490wux monitor.

[Taliesin]

That Debian post is pretty old.  Here is what is working today in my /etc/default/grub file:

The post is very old, no question about that.

Though try as I might I couldn't seem to find anything more recent. Perhaps I ought to have tried changing my search terms a few more times.

Regardless, I thank you for your response Dibl and will follow it through.

Cheers.