From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 5 19:00:05 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 CF91DE74EFC for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:00:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emilia@disroot.org) Received: from disroot.org (bs-one.disroot.org [178.21.23.139]) (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 94492693FA for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:00:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emilia@disroot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disroot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7D129FA6; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:00:02 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1512500402; bh=93AkuVkDPDA/K4JEuM5EhDZnXT4YGm0ZTH88jG5BJmA=; h=Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References; b=UsI7EimkJ53Qb0/5bmXArECpqVVSG8KxGVflemtQmc4jKOh8r5VGI9v8bWa+zO5Gi 523SmoNcyfJapi9UwuEspa/ld5WjJf/GDNTXcdkIyw5mNCK+zIIlNj3dBfRCY4XyPf WFSR0/Jm2228dnInp8b1+Aj2Qg9ufPRA+OUrLMkg= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at disroot.org Received: from disroot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail01.disroot.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K5LxLSQsBiRN; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:00:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:59:58 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1512500398; bh=93AkuVkDPDA/K4JEuM5EhDZnXT4YGm0ZTH88jG5BJmA=; h=Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References; b=UuSAPmxsyy2tmdD5OPqLb/EhT8wQW7OkUV2GLnRlCKfC+bEXtm7MVf6BE9dWu8xwx UD2LP+6imsywTKWC7EZNrbfxYiKR/1lxWxZEsCYD5I/ah/Sxo7T44/O23F/kRE8t/E 3rNrFeW6iv7G/lMO5ZUZyuFkiY6jmnPhOuaGNB4M= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: emilia@disroot.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question about nvidia driver To: "Marco Beishuizen" , "Manish Jain" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:00:05 -0000 > Only solution I know of is to put hw.vga.textmode=3D1 in /boot/loader.c= onf. Drawback is that you=0A> don't get graphics mode in your console but= old fashioned pre-vt console fonts.=0A=0AThis solution works, switching = to a tty is quite slow, but atleast it is usable :)=0A=0A> There is a pro= blem on account of which you cannot kldload nvidia-modeset=0A> via /boot/= loader.conf. The sure way to kldload nvidia and nvidia-modeset=0A> by put= ting this in /etc/rc.local :=0A> =0A> kldload nvidia=0A> kldload nvidia-m= odeset=0A> =0A> If your loader.conf / rc.conf has anything stuff to load = nvidia=0A> [-modeset], remove that stuff.=0A=0ANever had any problems wit= h loading nvidia drivers via loader.conf,=0Akldstat shows that the driver= was loaded (and X11 would not work anyway, since my config forces the=0A= use of nvidia driver)=0ARebooting without those driver and then kldloadin= g them manually had the same issues as just=0Aloading them via loader.con= f=0A=0Aregards,=0Aemilia