From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Jan 5 19:51:51 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 A1814CA1F57 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from mail-io0-x243.google.com (mail-io0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F8201E52 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by mail-io0-x243.google.com with SMTP id f73so63872958ioe.2 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:51:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=chen-org-nz.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=z+HSmfQwC681COvtRBsYlbCkpjfTD0jryGpGvPEST1U=; b=QXgVaY/kUO0KkJO1gfoKPUsge7YmiJkC4hAWbd5Asm9IBPRkRDkkJeYSpe4qRVDLKx I2SDzP+j2IgvaY91wo26zU7NfEB1TKOFMo7EbzqStSzfx68pQaBP7l5qwe0UwQMirR3A eOGbb71ljaw8G5HkBU7e2XkDY2Z4Fzqtxj6vh6k4J+mrngsBNvKUY1sH9t0ToXIelP3x OuCw9xxv8CxnHEUpwQQ7y0L7RSZwk3dOutlbKmLrZ2Cr30jJSycXC4kyztDEPkL6ydh5 5OlYEhJvhx4C6+LmvK6HuYV8Q/OL3BxadsZTTkU87VfpL8oaZ+nTG5ndEEM48LVzI/aX ePiQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=z+HSmfQwC681COvtRBsYlbCkpjfTD0jryGpGvPEST1U=; b=RDf+g2m/m0Pa2qj6xCliQWwQml8OdPgm/2o5xsG7MP92qJDxPo5jkUERTNwTbmqAFh lmapaEPuYSAObKI/ms5pZp7nAli1H/Q36HpKrm2URTDGoZNb5z1PqdEWUtbtz6jj9CTB uK24xfV+svgq4fJnNlZsDAszjzcVzdVtRhaRmSrGJbgLhNGOgrpklB7aopY/4eXLLIcw QoWl4lMtYbltVI5z6XCfke1xBuCIsdVXK187dHx2wI26DU/8w2lA28NsBGSWXJlWarrP pt6F7WaexSYsNeQUTJFTkRA+qXx5fYMLHtwAcEcOkrReqUfr/pPekql/4HrotK25e5GQ SVRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJ1bV1qk7BR0DqVX1clybMCXOCjOtIuxvCJJD78SBFAtyUHaXKVTti2Wy3xheA+LvCKGvdjuTDXREgUJw== X-Received: by 10.107.134.139 with SMTP id q11mr7642442ioi.168.1483645910830; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:51:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.142.206 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:51:50 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [101.53.193.118] In-Reply-To: <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Jonathan Chen Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 08:51:50 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: STABLE-11/amd64 and X To: Schaich Alonso Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 19:51:51 -0000 On 6 January 2017 at 00:40, Schaich Alonso 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