maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 286005] x11/nvidia-driver: update to 570 switches monitor off

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:24:03 UTC
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Bug 286005: x11/nvidia-driver: update to 570 switches monitor off
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286005



--- Description ---
Switching from 550 to 570 turns my monitor off:

FreeBSD itself boots as before, but as the X server tries to start, my monitor
says "no signal"; And a few seconds later it goes off. Turning it on again
and/or switching to a terminal by entering [strg][alt][F1|9] doesn't do
anything - nothing can be done except pressing the power button of the computer
to reboot (what makes tests really un-funny - took me some time to find out
that it's nvidia-driver…).

Using simply a xterm (and nothing more) as "window manager" (also: TWM)
excludes anything like "KDE", "window manager XY" etc.; Starting a simple X
server fails.

Fetching and re-installing the latest 550 port solves the problem (but such a
downgrading is not a real solution, and will lead to problems when that old
port won't compile on an up to date environment anymore…).

I've switched back from latest to quarterly to get fewer updates (at the moment
not a big deal as Q2 is brand new), and I'm using 14.2-RELEASE-p2 / amd64. My
graphic card is a Palit "GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX", the monitor a LG "34CB88-B".
So nothing brand new or exotic (beside the fact the card is passiv cooled).

I'm adding a X11 logfile.