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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