Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:01:00 +0200 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> Cc: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After nvidia 346.96 to 367.35 upgrade, no valid display anymore Message-ID: <455609ff-a79a-8634-e9a8-579d2bdc075f@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <20160829180438.4e64307d.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <c65ce344-77b0-cb82-d2a1-ca8f785886eb@janh.de> <20160829145229.GA42512@elch.exwg.net> <a34b977f-429b-27bb-2912-e419245250da@madpilot.net> <20160829180438.4e64307d.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 08/29/2016 18:04, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:06:35 +0200 > Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> schrieb: > >> On 08/29/16 16:52, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: >>> ## Jan Henrik Sylvester (me@janh.de): >>> >>>> With 367.35, screen freezes on Xorg start. It was ok with 346.96 and is >>>> still ok after downgrading to 340.96. >>> >>> I found out the hard way that the nvidia driver now has a second module, >>> it's called "nvidia-modeset.ko" and required at least for some >>> configurations. Loading that as a dependency would've been too obvious? >>> Anyways, does kldloading nvidia-modeset and restarting X resolve the >>> problem? >> >> I have just added the nvidia-modeset.ko to my setup to load on startup >> and have my monitor back. Maybe this should be documented in UPDATING? >> >> BTW I also have another minor issue now, the text VTYs display some >> ascii art style garbage. It also changes if I press keys, so they do >> react to input. > > This is a well known issue (see PR > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201340). > > It seems vt() is broken with the new nVidia code, which is, by the way, 367.44 right > now, .35 has some issues with dark screen at first Xorg init (after reboot) for me on > GTX960, which is gone with .44 367.35 with nvidia-modeset.ko works for me. This should be documented. 367.44 with nvidia-modeset.ko works, too. Thanks all, Jan Henrik
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