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On 12/05/14 14:05, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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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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>> |
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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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> [...] |
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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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It's an in-kernel driver, like VESAFB and so on. It's the CONFIG_FB_EFI |
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option. It can be enabled in: |
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Device Drivers > Graphics support > Support for frame buffer devices > |
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EFI-based Framebuffer Support |
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It only works when actually booting in EFI mode. It cannot be used when |
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booting in BIOS mode, even on an EFI system. |
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