FreeBSD on Lenovo T430s (blank screen in X)

[Sean DuBois]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:45:28PM +0100, Andrei Brezan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p9 on a Lenovo T430s with a HD 4000
> Intel video adapter. The Nvidia Optimus one is disabled in BIOS.
> Whenever I try to startx the screen goes blank and the only thing I can
> do is Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart it. If I try to get back to the console I
> still have the same black/blank screen. I'm am currently making a
> buildworld to go to stable. Anyone that has experienced this on this
> laptop model?
>
> Even if I try to do a kldload i915kms I get the same black/blank display.
>
> Maybe there is someone there with an idea.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Andrei

Hi Andrei,

In your /boot/loader.conf set

    kern.vty=vt

>From vt(4)