After nvidia 346.96 to 367.35 upgrade, no valid display anymore

[O. Hartmann]

Am Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:06:35 +0200
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> schrieb:

> On 08/29/16 16:52, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> > ## Jan Henrik Sylvester (me at janh.de):
> >   
> >> With 367.35, screen freezes on Xorg start. It was ok with 346.96 and is
> >> still ok after downgrading to 340.96.  
> > 
> > I found out the hard way that the nvidia driver now has a second module,
> > it's called "nvidia-modeset.ko" and required at least for some
> > configurations. Loading that as a dependency would've been too obvious?
> > Anyways, does kldloading nvidia-modeset and restarting X resolve the
> > problem?  
> 
> I have just added the nvidia-modeset.ko to my setup to load on startup
> and have my monitor back. Maybe this should be documented in UPDATING?
> 
> BTW I also have another minor issue now, the text VTYs display some
> ascii art style garbage. It also changes if I press keys, so they do
> react to input.

This is a well known issue (see PR
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201340).

It seems vt() is broken with the new nVidia code, which is, by the way, 367.44 right
now, .35 has some issues with dark screen at first Xorg init (after reboot) for me on
GTX960, which is gone with .44

> 
> Maybe I'm missing some configuration or is it a bug? Or some
> incompatibility with my video card (GeForce GT 630)?
> 

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