Re: [HEADS UP] xorg version switch in CURRENT

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:12:05 -0600
On 12/17/13 14:07, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:20:53PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> To get VT switching when using KMS drivers (ATI, Intel) please use
>> newcons: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons or if that is not possible,
>> force the use of the vesa driver for xorg.
>>
> It appears that newcons is unusable with a static kernel.
> Adding 'device drm2' and 'device i915kms' to my kernel
> config results in a quick death to 'make buldkernel'.
>

You may not want it either. The radeon KMS driver, if loaded with 
newcons before X, replaces your console with snow (or at least it did 
the last time I tried it).
-Nathan
Received on Tue Dec 17 2013 - 19:12:14 UTC

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