From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Jan 5 11:40:40 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 34303CA06C5 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (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 0B61E1EAA for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F1E20B1D; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 06:40:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from web5 ([10.202.2.215]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 05 Jan 2017 06:40:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=pFdBagRMX8c7cmwqBCBQdnZycu w=; b=blopORqjFZExbnbZP2yjBlR1EWSRJS6fcq0aU9O+keonKuPGj24DNdUjCy pNw2xpY6lJOwk7+/BVSL3LdFkHOrr/n36Ac9C56VPrw/W7weKbPxzUw7JOFQKLm+ AuAOHnucORYQ7SvKjcPkipH29z73ZUMpoDHPQ14Vqy3mWrZfg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=pF dBagRMX8c7cmwqBCBQdnZycuw=; b=PXH8mtM+T5vFgCSGS95FQxFEdld1APezTh 0hRp1F6XL9ALTyDOhK1P7WwPNln0sAYekjma6cGcSPwk8TLMDkrNexzZ9MiAdmK6 DkfeVPmPLOpjw0tJPXRKUG48Pfto5tj4czzT/ml8Cou9BTTjvfiFwbrsvbDHTZRu npxXqmExI= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id C6FE86ABED; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 06:40:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Schaich Alonso To: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-8d3535ca Subject: Re: STABLE-11/amd64 and X In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:40:37 +0100 References: 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, 05 Jan 2017 11:40:40 -0000 On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 12:12, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I've just moved onto STABLE-11/amd64 today, and after rebuilding all > my ports, I find that switching from X back to the console using > Ctrl-Alt-F1 results in a screen filled with random coloured blocks. > Does anyone here know how I can get a decent console? > > Cheers. Hi, This is likely caused by changes in vt(4) introduced in FreeBSD-11. Most importantly, the new default is to use kernel mode setting which works only limitedly well with nvidia's drivers. The default vt mode of FreeBSD-10 can be restored by setting hw.vga.textmode=1 in /boot/loader.conf. Yours, Alonso