MacBook Pro 11,3 Nvidia Drivers

[blubee blubeeme]

Wow, it was a typo!

Thank you, loading the nvidia-modeset drivers worked!

User error, my apologies.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 16:52 Hartmann, O. <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 06:39:03 +0000
> blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just did a full portmaster -Da and updated all my packages. Which
> > are listed here: http://paste2.org/EcM8s3gH
> >
> > When I add nvidia_load to boot/loader.conf and I log in, nvidia
> > drivers are loaded but running startx gives me garbled screen.
> >
> > If I try to add nvidia-modest_load to my boot/loader.conf then no
> > nvidia drivers are loaded.
>
> Shouldn't it be nvidia-modeset_load="YES"? Check for a typo, please.
>
> >
> > Trying sudo kldload nvidia-modest returns kldload can't load
> > nvidia-modest no such for our directory.
> > Here is the xorg log: http://paste2.org/37fpmnYL
>
> See above, this could probably be due to the type, it is
> nvidia-modeset.ko, not nvidia-modest.ko (the name of the kernel object
> module).
>
> >
> > I have the nvidia Gt 750m Mac edition and I have the nvidia driver
> > 367.44 which I think is the latest one.
> >
> > Is there anything else that I could try to do to fix this?
>
> Well, I'd prefere to wait for your next response due to the possible
> typo. If it is a typo, no further help is needed :-)
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 13:09 Hartmann, O.
> > <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:53:34 -0700
> > > Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried changing 'nvidia_load="YES"' to
> > > > 'nvidia-modeset_load="YES"'?  It's documented in UPDATING and
> > > > pkg-message, but I understand this is a surprising change.  At
> > > > least one other user has reported a garbled screen on 367.44, but
> > > > I don't know what hardware they had.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Conrad
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:39 PM, blubee blubeeme
> > > > <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I seem to be having issues recently when I build nvidia-driver
> > > > > from ports.
> > > > >
> > > > > Installing 346.44 from pkg works fine but If I go and install
> > > > > 367.44 from ports then my screen gets garbled and the nvidia
> > > > > driver doesn't seem to get loaded, even though
> > > > > nvidia_load="YES" is still in /boot/loader.con but if I revert
> > > > > back to 346.44 then things work again.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a known issue? How can I fix/ avoid this?
> > > > >
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> > >
> > > Prior to 367.35, I also ran into an garbled screen issue once with
> > > the new modeset driver. This happened on all nVidia Quadro based
> > > cards we have around here, at least that built into my workstation,
> > > a Quadro NV315, one of the low-end Quadros nVidia offers. But that
> > > has gone with the most recent series of divers.
> > >
> > > The garbled console is still with consumer GPUs (GTX 960, GTX 560Ti)
> > > when using UEFI with required vt() console driver. The above
> > > mentioned Quadro boards have a black console - no garbled, no
> > > distorted screen so far but black. This goes away immediately after
> > > unloading the nvidia_modeset.ko kernel module.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Oliver
> > >
>
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