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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #1063969
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 1063969

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John Clark (clarkjc) wrote :

I saw the following in the release notes for version 319.17 of the NVIDIA driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.17-driver.html):

"* Added initial support for restoration of efifb consoles on UEFI systems where the primary display is driven over VGA or TMDS (e.g. DVI, HDMI, or LVDS)."

It looks like NVIDIA is doing something about this, but their priority is UEFI systems where they have to support interoperating with a framebuffer backed console.