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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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