Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:57:09 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, 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: <e5200c46-9c77-7cc2-57af-f67c6564c7e1@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <20160830135321.0f9b1f71@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.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> <52f8372b-9da0-9552-25a6-99bda9bbb769@madpilot.net> <20160830135321.0f9b1f71@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de>
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On 08/30/16 13:53, O. Hartmann wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:17:40 +0200 > Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote: > >> On 08/29/16 18:04, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >>>> 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 >> >> I see, thanks for the info. It's a minor issue to me, so I am in no >> hurry for this to be fixed. >> > > having a dark screen initially when using xd/Xorg may be a "minor issue for > you", it is a medium issue for others if they do not know how to fix it > (Ctrl-Alt-FX to get to a console which is black on vt() and then go back with > Alt-FX to the tty where the X is active). The "minor issue" expression was related to having VTYs display garbage when X11 works fine. Having X11 suddenly not working is a major issue, in fact I suggested adding a note in UPDATING to help people sort it out. Sorry if I did not make it perfectly clear. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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