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.
Yours,
Alonso