Nic wroteok nvidia 390 was installed with pacman without problems. But it changed the resolution of the screen...everything is so huge now :O
Need to find a fix for that...
Ok so I found out, I have to set the vbe in syslinux.
I installed "hwinfo" to get the parameters of my graphics card
# hwinfo --framebuffer --log hwfb.log
opened it with nano. Then I pressed "F6" to search for "video modes".
I have a total of 19. Linux kernel doesn't accept directly vesa video mode numbers as explained in
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions
My video card supports till 0x014d ... i guess bootloader needs 0x214d then (?)
Opened "boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg"
There is a tip line, i guess from you (Eric):
"TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line."
But what is the kernel line?
APPEND root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=0x214d
?????????
I guess if I fuck this up, I can't boot anymore lol
Edit: ok even if you put in a wrong number the system lets you choose the mode. the correct code is "vga=0x034d". Cool I figured it out.