Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:40:37 +0100 From: Schaich Alonso <alonsoschaich@fastmail.fm> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STABLE-11/amd64 and X Message-ID: <1483616437.1350394.838087929.6F3E67DC@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zNkeyRE3wcRCZY%2BPw1pR%2Bha70dfchXeNvK=PHMke=WZLA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJuc1zNkeyRE3wcRCZY%2BPw1pR%2Bha70dfchXeNvK=PHMke=WZLA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 12:12, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just moved onto STABLE-11/amd64 today, and after rebuilding all
> my ports, I find that switching from X back to the console using
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 results in a screen filled with random coloured blocks.
> Does anyone here know how I can get a decent console?
>
> Cheers.
Hi,
This is likely caused by changes in vt(4) introduced in FreeBSD-11. Most
importantly, the new default is to use kernel mode setting which works
only limitedly well with nvidia's drivers. The default vt mode of
FreeBSD-10 can be restored by setting
hw.vga.textmode=1
in /boot/loader.conf.
Yours,
Alonso
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