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Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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>> Is this an EFI, or a NVidia problem? |
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> Both. |
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> EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI |
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> mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. |
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> Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything |
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> else than VGA text mode. It seems to work fine "unofficially" though. |
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> I'm using the EFI console framebuffer driver. The NVidia blob complains |
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> about it, but it seems to work with no ill effects so far. |
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> So you can include both the EFI design group as well as NVidia in the |
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> "bunch of idiots" I mentioned previously :-) |
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OK, I consider doing that ;-) |
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Could you maybe add how you "use the EFI console framebuffer driver" |
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here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around |
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like hell ... especially with this "intuitive" UEFI-stuff ;-) |
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Best regards, Stefan |
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