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Date:      Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:59:58 +0000
From:      emilia@disroot.org
To:        "Marco Beishuizen" <mbeis@xs4all.nl>, "Manish Jain" <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about nvidia driver
Message-ID:  <e929d5aabc8c6f203145b4705a4c22b9@disroot.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712051924130.2122@yokozuna>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712051924130.2122@yokozuna> <e41cdbf9dc082292974f728ad69f23ff@disroot.org>

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> 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



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