Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:21:07 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "emilia@disroot.org" <emilia@disroot.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about nvidia driver Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB1200EC8E9BD1289A1A8BCF14F63D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <20171205165321.6ef2dabc.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <e41cdbf9dc082292974f728ad69f23ff@disroot.org> <20171205165321.6ef2dabc.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 12/05/17 21:23, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:34:07 +0000, emilia@disroot.org wrote: >> Hello there, >> i have been using the nvidia 340 driver for some time with an >> older nvidia gpu, now i have a gtx 960 and decided to use the >> newest nvidia driver. >> In order to use X11 I load the nvidia-modeset kernelmodule, >> X11 works nicely but now all other tty's (0-7) are completely >> messed up and only show gibberish, is there some fix for that? > > If you haven't already, switch from sc to vt (check for the > entry "kern.vty=vt" in /boot/loader.conf). This will usually > work for "X vs. console + KMS" kind of problems. I think this is the modeset issue. You need to make sure that nvidia-modeset is kldload'ed as well (in addition to the nvidia kld): kldload nvidia kldload nvidia-modeset Regards MJ
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