Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:31:59 +0100 From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartmann@walstatt.org> To: Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver and vt - blank console on FreeBSD 11 Message-ID: <20161124143135.063ed985@hermann> In-Reply-To: <808601972.2288955.1479991877510.JavaMail.zimbra@tngtech.com> References: <cfd8014a-6e03-8905-18bd-919c5de4506b@tngtech.com> <20161123073745.0394f186@thor.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <808601972.2288955.1479991877510.JavaMail.zimbra@tngtech.com>
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:51:17 +0100 (CET) Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "O. Hartmann" <o.hartmann@walstatt.org> > > To: "Stefan Wendler" <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com> > > Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 7:37:45 AM > > Subject: Re: nvidia-driver and vt - blank console on FreeBSD 11 > > > Am Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:50:29 +0100 > > Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler@tngtech.com> schrieb: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am using the latest nvidia-driver-367.44_2 (modules nvidia.ko and > >> nvidia-modeset.ko have to be loaded in order for X to work) and > >> while X works great after I have started X and want to switch back > >> to console. Alle ttys are just black. The Keyboard is still > >> working and I can switch back to the X session or press Ctrl-C on > >> the black tty and startx again. > >> > >> My system is a UEFI install and at boot vt_efifb is used > >> automatically no matter what I set kern.vty to.except for "sc" of > >> course. With "sc" set, the system won't boot because with uefi > >> > >> I have tried like everything I have found on the web (changing > >> kern.vty, setting textmode to 1, etc). But I have also found that > >> nvidia and vt have had some problems when FreeBSD 11 was still > >> CURRENT and that this was fixed? > >> > >> Is this an open bug again? Is there a way for me to set an > >> option/add a patch or something to make ttys work again after I > >> have started X? > >> > >> Thx for your support, > >> Stefan > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > This phenomenon is well known since a couple of months for now. On > > Quadro GPUs, the > > console is black in our case and with consumer cards we have a > > garbled/blocky console. > > The Quadro based GPUs tend to refuse a reboot as long as the > > nvidia-modeset.ko kernel > > module is loaded: "shutdown -r now" remains in a kind of endless > > loop. > > > > Maybe nVidia has not been informed about this. I'm using 370.28 > > with UEFI/vt and nonUEFI/vt and it is still the same. > > > > Regards, > > O. Hartmann > > > > -- > > O. Hartmann > > I went to the nividia-page to maybe write the support-team when I > have seen this changelog(*) entry for the current version 375.20 > > - Added support for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE > > This version contains some other fixes that have to do with blank > consoles(375.20) and vt stuff (375.10) as well. Even though they are > not directly related to our problem. I will try this version tonight > and report back. Hopefully this will fix the problems ... > > (*)http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/111598/en-us > > Cheers, > Stefan Hello all. I tried this specific (most recent) version 375.20 and I got the error reported in the PR mentioned below regarding a missing library function. For shot - it doesn't work and it requires some sc_ prepended funtions supposedly referring to sc() console. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214769
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