After nvidia 346.96 to 367.35 upgrade, no valid display anymore

[Guido Falsi]

On 08/30/16 13:53, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:17:40 +0200
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/29/16 18:04, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>>> 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  
>>
>> I see, thanks for the info. It's a minor issue to me, so I am in no
>> hurry for this to be fixed.
>>
> 
> having a dark screen initially when using xd/Xorg may be a "minor issue for
> you", it is a medium issue for others if they do not know how to fix it
> (Ctrl-Alt-FX to get to a console which is black on vt() and then go back with
> Alt-FX to the tty where the X is active).

The "minor issue" expression was related to having VTYs display garbage
when X11 works fine.

Having X11 suddenly not working is a major issue, in fact I suggested
adding a note in UPDATING to help people sort it out.

Sorry if I did not make it perfectly clear.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>