On 02/11/10 06:39 PM, John Martin wrote: > On your system booted with b132 with the first desktop > session active, please run: > > $ echo "vgatext_silent/X" | pfexec mdb -k > > Also, since you can ssh into the system, please run the same > command after X fails to start correctly after the first logout.
If the value comes back 1, the progress bar is not being shut off. When the desktop is up, look very closely near the top of the display for a thin horizontal area of distorted pixels, possibly changing on the fly. As an experiment, do a "reboot -p" and as soon as the progress bar is put up after the grub menu, hit the Esc key a couple of times. If all is well, the graphics screen should be brought down and replaced with the text console. If repeatedly hitting the Esc key doesn't bring down the graphics screen, try unloading the NVIDIA driver with: $ pfexec pkgrm NVDAgraphicsr NVDAgraphics $ pfexec reboot -p and repeat this experiment. I suspect with and without the NVIDIA driver, you won't be able to turn off the progress bar.
