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Re: framebuffer + nvidia



On Thu May 8 2008 03:11:40 pm Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
>
> recently got a new laptop, with a nvidia gpu. I have installed the
> nvidia driver for X.  But I also like using the vt's as well.
>
> How do I drive them in a high mode the 80x40 and can I use frame buffers
> at the same time as using the nvidia driver for X

I append vga=789 to my kernel line in grub's menu.lst file to get a 800x600 (I 
think) terminal. I don't use anything graphical though in a terminal so I 
don't know if that will do what you want but it would be easy to try.


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