On 6 January 2017 at 00:40, Schaich Alonso <alonsoscha...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 12:12, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just moved onto STABLE-11/amd64 today, and after rebuilding all >> my ports, I find that switching from X back to the console using >> Ctrl-Alt-F1 results in a screen filled with random coloured blocks. >> Does anyone here know how I can get a decent console? >> >> Cheers. > > Hi, > > This is likely caused by changes in vt(4) introduced in FreeBSD-11. Most > importantly, the new default is to use kernel mode setting which works > only limitedly well with nvidia's drivers. The default vt mode of > FreeBSD-10 can be restored by setting > > hw.vga.textmode=1 > > in /boot/loader.conf.
Thanks, this works great! -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
