On 2023-04-14 11:36, Reid Sutherland wrote:
On 4/14/23 05:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-04-11 16:11, Reid Sutherland wrote:
On 4/11/23 10:06, Felix Miata wrote:
When NVidia's proprietary driver is installed, an environment is created such that either: 1-no FOSS driver will load, resulting in no running Xorg (most likely); or 2-a crude, low priority driver will load, usually resulting in no better than 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution.
Crude VESA driver is better than nothing. If the user is unprepared, they're basically hard down unless they have another device.
With a low resolution display you are also stuck. You can not browse internet to ask questions, it is barely usable. Several tools you need are bigger than the display and you can not press the buttons at the bottom.
Unless somebody designs an alternate X system that ignores all configuration systems and proprietary drivers, which tries to start on failure of X.
Nothing wrong with 1024, Windows does the same thing but they have better drivers. No idea how you think a text prompt is better for someone who has no knowledge of what to enter into it.
We are not saying it is better. Would you prefer a cute empty blue screen instead? I guess it is better than that.
The issue is the kernel driver isn't loaded at boot, so X should be able to move on to the next driver without issue.
It does move to the next driver.
Can safely put this issue to rest unless someone with direct knowledge wants to help correct it (Nvidia).
If the nvidia proprietary driver is enabled, they do it in such a way that X11 can not try another driver. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)