Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 08:51:50 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Schaich Alonso <alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STABLE-11/amd64 and X Message-ID: <CAJuc1zMQ9d=1j9e%2B8LQRLWS0WmvAo1Gx80DJYGxRpFW33HXM1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <CAJuc1zNkeyRE3wcRCZY%2BPw1pR%2Bha70dfchXeNvK=PHMke=WZLA@mail.gmail.com> <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 6 January 2017 at 00:40, Schaich Alonso <alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm> wrote: > 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. Thanks, this works great! -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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