After nvidia 346.96 to 367.35 upgrade, no valid display anymore

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

On 08/29/2016 18:04, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 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

367.35 with nvidia-modeset.ko works for me. This should be documented.

367.44 with nvidia-modeset.ko works, too.

Thanks all,
Jan Henrik