Nvidia and vesafb

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:05:24 +0000, refdoc <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> I am running x.org on hoary and use the nvidia driver.
> 
> For reasons which I do not fully understand (lack of knowledge) the
> nvidia driver will not run with teh normal kernel, but asked on
> compiling it requires a kernel without vesafb support.
> 
> If started , indeed X will not start up.
> After modprobe vesafb to remove vesafb I can start X with nvidia active.
> 
> At the moment I am doing this by hand when I want to play 3d games - not
> a good solution. How can I permanently disable vesafb at teh start - I
> do not want to recompile a Kernel as this would need to be re-done with
> every iteration of new kernel coming out. I'd rather have a config file
> somewhere which keeps vesafb out of my system.
> What shall I do?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Peter
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If you do:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 

go through all the questions (accepting defaults works mostly but
backup your /etc/X11/xorg.conf - just in case)
When it asks for which video driver module - select nvidia
When it asks about frame buffer say no to not use it.

I think this will get you where you want to be

Tom
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