Debian
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #286

Comment 286 for bug 129910

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Buzz (buzz-piersol) wrote :

This is a sort of update.

In my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
    fbcon
    vesafb
    nvidiafb

And in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
   # blacklist nvidiafb
   # blacklist vesafb

Now this is interesting. If my boot line DOES NOT include vga=XXX, I get virtual terms which are very crisp clean, very small beautiful font, probably 1440x900. However, my X is broke from this--I am using the nvidia-glx driver (not nvidia-glx-new). Jean Levasseur mentioned the incompatibility with the nvidiafb and nvidia-glx-new. Of course I can't get the full 1440x900 natively in X with the nv driver.

To sum it up, using the above modules, I have a double-edged sword:
   * GUI is 1440x768 using nvidia-glx, and virtual terminals at 1024x768 when I specify vga=0x318 as a boot option.
   * GUI is 1024x768 using nv, and virtual terminals are 1440x900 (I think), when I don't specify vga=xxx as a boot option.

Buzz