Console Desktop Guide (2018)

Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by lmm on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:38AM (#28138408)

In my experience switching only works if you disable the fancy nvidia console driver (that assumes KMS etc.) and use the basic VESA framebuffer driver. The nvidia framebuffer drivers can coexist with nouveau etc. but not with the nvidia binary drivers. That might be what OP is getting at.

(I completely agree that the binary nvidia drivers work a lot better - indeed I find them better than the open-source AMD drivers as well)

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Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by ohazi on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:42AM (#28139190)

I see, so essentially this:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on...

Interesting. I've always had native resolution on this display in the console, so I never really looked into it. I guess it's an EFI thing?

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Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by jcelerier on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:35AM (#28138776)

IDK but on ArchLinux, with the "nvidia" package installed, I can have multiple ttys, some with X sessions, some with Wayland sessions, some as consoles

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Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by lmm on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:12AM (#28139000)

Arch Linux means you've probably built a custom kernel, and you won't have the nvidia framebuffer driver unless you deliberately chose to.

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Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by jcelerier on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:52AM (#28140054)

What ? I use the stock kernel like the immense majority of arch users. This isn't Gentoo lol

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Re:Console Desktop Guide (2018) by jcelerier on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:50PM (#28147551)

source: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages#query=linux

72% have the "linux", 40% have "linux-lts". The first "patched" kernel is at 11% of usage

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