STABLE-11/amd64 and X

[Jonathan Chen]

On 6 January 2017 at 00:40, Schaich Alonso <alonsoschaich at 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 <jonc at chen.org.nz>