From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 02:31:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 582534A8; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-x22d.google.com (mail-ve0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09371B74; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f173.google.com with SMTP id oy12so6444254veb.32 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:31:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=+iHRBQ3QXYWm+evGoQ+HEkzIGpZ52YCitG2PceP/B/8=; b=npb8z4Xx9hg3PEuyYHMKTDSKC8Knw+VA1pk6mErvqBSdsHVufOh2zYlDxOoRenLJGc a9Ss/jHOQMlv19SuVHqN9zYV6hLbZD1cg2GhWieJpUKZmivXFBFP3oUH/JQbTa3WH+Xn XKWKfSD74cckpheQlYqWLa2UEX9Jm48/H+ctbpAPdqkA/RI3weoJt1OkhxcCj4IBxpby wsQlKwh2HpdyuIcKz9PaEd9twapXJmGXkkFiwwIKAEWQTJqkRmo4bDQz/i52K5chmg52 ssY5At2Nrub3nJWIkVmuv1LdLx5x3877fDHzAZtpCy/TPY9rhU9J7CzRTjNdoN+Kz/tF hL3Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.31.136 with SMTP id a8mr9101375vei.20.1395109885216; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.168.135 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:31:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Newcons with Nvidia From: Thomas Hoffmann To: freebsd-current , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:31:26 -0000 The newcons wiki page shows that newcons with Nvidia as UNKNOWN. That may or may not change after this report. I'm running -CURRENT r263278 amd64 with an Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTS using the nv driver from x11-drivers/xorg-driver. I built/booted a newcons kernel, applied the vidcontrol-for-vt-2014-03-11patch and "installed" the /usr/share/vt/fonts/gallant.fnt font. With syscons, I would start with an 80x24 text console for the boot and then switch to a 1920x1200 (240x75 - 8x16) virtual terminal once allscreens_flags got processed in /etc/rc.conf. With newcons, there were four changes of note: 1) a new console font (gallant maybe?) for the 80x24 text console; 2) no mode switch to 1920x1200 with allscreens_flags. The message "vidcontrol: Setting video mode: inappropriate ioctl for device" was written to the console/terminal, ostensibly when it tried to process allscreens_flags. 3) The message "Configuring syscons: blanktimevt4_mode = 1; allscreensvt4_mode = 1" was written to the console around the time (I think) /etc/rc.conf was being processed. Not sure what these mean. 4) "vidcontrol -i mode" shows no usable modes (all show 0000x0000) or fonts (all show 0x0). So, some questions: 1) Is what I am seeing expected given the current state of newcons development and the Nvidia card/driver? 2) Is there a way to get back to a 1920x1200 video mode for my virtual terminals with newcons? Or even get it early in the boot process? 3) Are there any tests I can run that would be of value to the newcons team -OR- 4) Should I just take my newcons kernel and Nvidia card and go away :))) I'll admit I spend so little time using virtual terminals I almost don't care what mode newcons gives me. As long as X gives me 1920x1200, and it still does, I'll be happy. Thanks for all your efforts on newcons. -Tom