I have NVIDIA GTX 970 GPU, which is pretty new chip and it is not recognized by nouveau driver shipped with Ubuntu 14.10, hence I am stuck on 1024x768 resolution on Full HD monitor - not so good. There is no proprietary driver in Additional Drivers setting, so I decided to download and install driver directly from NVIDIA web site.
I tried to install NVIDIA driver exactly like I did ten years ago on Slackware:
$ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.36.run
but it says, that it must be run without X Server running. Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or combination with any other F? key) takes me to the black screen and only thing I can do then is to return back to X by Alt+F7.
My next step was to tune GRUB to boot into pure text mode. I edited /etc/default/grub to have:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"
After
$ sudo update-grub
and reboot, system hangs during boot on some video mode stuff.
My question is: how to run a pure VGA text mode? No famebuffer, no fancy splash, just pure ASCII 80x24 text? I need it only once, just to install NVIDIA driver and have 1920x1080 screen resolution.
PS
I also tried to install NVIDIA driver from Ubuntu repository:
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-331
No success, it made my system unusable with graphics totally messed up.
Nvidia 343.22 added support for GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980. It's not available in the official repositories.
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