From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Feb 2 18:01:40 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA64CCDFB3 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0C50BA for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:01:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from amavis-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3vDnqz1zB7z7h for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:01:35 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= user-agent:message-id:organization:subject:subject:from:from :date:date:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :mime-version:received:received:received:received; s=jakla4; t= 1486058491; x=1488650492; bh=GrKKr82CywpdnC+GRgOgsLGWZx9iSVAm5Ii gFK0QowI=; b=SSZ5vgb1b1fDKbltTUBw0iAEngSwR9TMRB2XOs+8YZ9IUhpP82R sfHVXBiAFRELmyAXMxP9uVbFDzc5JWk5KY9VRO7ORJ1uhAR0EH0CjH2QfwGbcDoA fM5gnBnADWMcP1GAlxkMPW/z/aV4wDZKWVlQivV6jSRyluG7sagCN4vs= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id vTF_jhET15X6 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:01:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3vDnqt0wpcz7f for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:01:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from nabiralnik.ijs.si (nabiralnik.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::80:16]) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3vDnqt03p9z1Mv for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:01:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from neli.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:88:21c:c0ff:feb1:8c91) by webmail.ijs.si with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:01:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:01:29 +0100 From: Mark Martinec To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: vt(4) gibberish characters in 11.0 with nvidia Organization: Jozef Stefan Institute Message-ID: X-Sender: Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:01:40 -0000 I have recently upgraded two hosts with identical nvidia boards (GeForce GT 730, fresh driver nvidia-driver-375.26 from ports), one has been following 11-STABLE every now and then, the other was on 10.3. So they are now at 11.0-RELEASE-p7 or on a recent 11-STABLE respectively. The problem now showing on both hosts is that a virtual terminal console driver (vt(4), no special settings) now shows gibberish character-cells in an approx 90x24 raster. Character cells are of varying colors, some textured, so it looks as if the font loaded was just random junk. The boot screen sequence looks fine up to the moment when the X starts. The X11 screen (with KDE) is fine too. It's just the ttyv0-ttyv7 consoles which are broken. Solved my immediate problem by adding hw.vga.textmode=1 to /boot/loader.conf, so that ttyv consoles now look fine (in fact much nicer, as the vt fonts are pretty squashed and ugly to my eyes). What puzzles me is what has changed recently, as both hosts were happily using vt consoles in graphical mode until the upgrade. (btw, I do have nvidia-modeset.ko and nvidia.ko loaded) Mark