nvidia-driver and vt - blank console on FreeBSD 11

[Stefan Wendler]

On 11/24/16 14:31, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:51:17 +0100 (CET)
> Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com> wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "O. Hartmann" <o.hartmann at walstatt.org>
>>> To: "Stefan Wendler" <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com>
>>> Cc: "freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 7:37:45 AM
>>> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver and vt - blank console on FreeBSD 11  
>>
>>> Am Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:50:29 +0100
>>> Stefan Wendler <stefan.wendler at tngtech.com> schrieb:
>>>   
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am using the latest nvidia-driver-367.44_2 (modules nvidia.ko and
>>>> nvidia-modeset.ko have to be loaded in order for X to work) and
>>>> while X works great after I have started X and want to switch back
>>>> to console. Alle ttys are just black. The Keyboard is still
>>>> working and I can switch back to the X session or press Ctrl-C on
>>>> the black tty and startx again.
>>>>
>>>> My system is a UEFI install and at boot vt_efifb is used
>>>> automatically no matter what I set kern.vty to.except for "sc" of
>>>> course. With "sc" set, the system won't boot because with uefi
>>>>
>>>> I have tried like everything I have found on the web (changing
>>>> kern.vty, setting textmode to 1, etc). But I have also found that
>>>> nvidia and vt have had some problems when FreeBSD 11 was still
>>>> CURRENT and that this was fixed?
>>>>
>>>> Is this an open bug again? Is there a way for me to set an
>>>> option/add a patch or something to make ttys work again after I
>>>> have started X?
>>>>
>>>> Thx for your support,
>>>> Stefan
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>>>
>>> This phenomenon is well known since a couple of months for now. On
>>> Quadro GPUs, the
>>> console is black in our case and with consumer cards we have a
>>> garbled/blocky console.
>>> The Quadro based GPUs tend to refuse a reboot as long as the
>>> nvidia-modeset.ko kernel
>>> module is loaded: "shutdown -r now" remains in a kind of endless
>>> loop.
>>>
>>> Maybe nVidia has not been informed about this. I'm using 370.28
>>> with UEFI/vt and nonUEFI/vt and it is still the same.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> O. Hartmann
>>>
>>> --
>>> O. Hartmann  
>>
>> I went to the nividia-page to maybe write the support-team when I
>> have seen this changelog(*) entry for the current version 375.20
>>
>>  - Added support for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE
>>
>> This version contains some other fixes that have to do with blank
>> consoles(375.20) and vt stuff (375.10) as well. Even though they are
>> not directly related to our problem. I will try this version tonight
>> and report back. Hopefully this will fix the problems ...
>>
>> (*)http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/111598/en-us
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> I tried this specific (most recent) version 375.20 and I got the error
> reported in the PR mentioned below regarding a missing library
> function. For shot - it doesn't work and it requires some sc_ prepended
> funtions supposedly referring to sc() console.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214769
> 

it works for me with FreeBSD 11. But the "blank vt"-bug is not resolved.