NVIDIA driver and graphical grub2?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

Hi Adam,

2012/5/17 Adam Williamson <adamwill at shaw.ca>:
> So I'm talking to a guy on IRC (freegz), who uses the NVIDIA driver. It
> seems that when he converted from non-graphical grub2 to graphical grub2
> (which we've changed relatively recently in F17), the NVIDIA driver
> stopped working. It sounds rather like the issue with nomodeset and
> graphical grub2 raised in this thread on test:

I don't understand why the nvidia driver would have any impact on the
grub2 level.
The only option used by the driver is not nomodeset but
nouveau.nomodeset=0 and rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau which doesn't
involve the nvidia driver at this time.

> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-May/108022.html
I saw that message - unfortunately no usefull information on this thread.

> so, it sounds like someone might need to check into how to make nvidia
> play nice with graphical grub2. I'm guessing it's possible as ubuntu
> seems to default to graphical grub2, but I thought it'd be worth a
> heads-up.

I will try to see if that can be improved with an options. But again,
we don't load anything from nvidia at the grub2 level. So I'm not sure
to understand.

That been said, nvidia used to unsupport any vga= like boot option
that will allow graphical boot (plymouth level, this time) with nvidia
driver using vesafb.
As a consequence, I  don't think to enable this by default.


FYI, I plan an enhancement to support a second grub menu for allowing
a switch with opensource drivers from grub2.
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317

Thx

Nicolas(kwizart)