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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:57:19 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: nvidia driver
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711181652370.72630@yokozuna>
In-Reply-To: <aa478dad-b750-b976-852b-ac5b50877502@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <aa478dad-b750-b976-852b-ac5b50877502@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, the wise Andriy Gapon wrote:

> First, it seems that the driver requires that syscons (device sc) is 
> compiled into the kernel.  Even if vt is actually used sc still must be 
> present, because otherwise the module would fail to load:
>> link_elf_obj: symbol sc_get_softc undefined
>
> Also, from my experiments it seems that switching between X and text 
> consoles works only with syscons.  If vt is used then there is a garbage 
> on the screen after switching to a text console. Is this true?

Switching to console from X with Ctrl+Alt+Fx does work here with Nvidia 
driver and vt. But in /boot/loader.conf, hw.vga.textmode=1 needs to be 
set, otherwise the console text is garbled.

Regards,
Marco

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