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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)