On 4 November 2013 02:16, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent news. I'm really looking forward to newcons. Guess it's time to > move my T520 to 10-Stable (or Beta) I'm running a Newcons kernel on my Thinkpad X220 now and it's working well, with a few minor quirks. This is with the X-related packages rebuilt with WITH_NEW_XORG= and WITH_KMS= in /etc/make.conf. > Are you booting directly to X or using startx from the console? In either > case, I think that i915kms should auto-load at the start of X, so you > should not need to pre-load it. I log in and running startx. i915kms does auto-load. > Does newcons require VESA? If not, you should be able to remove it from > your kernel to get suspend/resume working from X. It does not use VESA - it's removed from GENERIC on the newcons branch. Suspend and resume generally works on my X220 now, from X or console. There are some outstanding issues, for example the X display sometimes ends up corrupted after resume; stopping and restarting X fixes that.Received on Mon Nov 04 2013 - 14:30:41 UTC
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