Re: Xorg-Radeon

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:08:40 +0800
On 9/17/13 9:11 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 17.09.2013 14:51, ajtiM wrote:
>> I bult Xorg on iMc, Radeon HD 4850 with ddvd support and "starts"
>> works :). The problem is when I exit it stay in black screen. There are
>> no errors in Xorg.log.
> This is a know issue: our current console implementation, "syscons",
> doesn't know about KMS (the new way to driver video cards from the
> kernel, not from X.Org itself). Therefore, once you start X.Org, the
> console can't use the display anymore, neither during your X session
> using Ctrl-Alt-Fx, nor after you exit from X.Org.
>
> However, even if your screen is blank after X exit, the computer doesn't
> crash and can be used remotely. This also means you don't have to force
> a shutdown: a short press on the power button will shut down the
> computer properly.

it should be possible for the vga driver to issue a vga reset to the 
device..
I believe there was a standard reset instruction in the original VGA 
design.
Every device since hten should have copied it. even if they disagree 
about everything else.



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Received on Thu Sep 19 2013 - 00:09:02 UTC

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