After nvidia 346.96 to 367.35 upgrade, no valid display anymore

[Conrad Meyer]

I've gone ahead and filed
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212287 to track this
update.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:44 AM, O. Hartmann
<ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:57:09 +0200
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The problem could be solved by simply changing 367.35 to 367.44. The latter
> version still has the vt() issue, but not the dark screen on some graphic
> workstations as described.
>
> Maybe it is logically a new PR, since the update towards a refurbished
> framework has already been done.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Oliver Hartmann
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