Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:23:07AM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700
> John Reynolds <johnjen_at_reynoldsnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? 
> > About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11_at_ and much was said about KMS 
> > (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody 
> > mentioned that one of the problems where the "console goes away" once 
> > you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you 
> > could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit 
> > cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was 
> > being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the "tail
> > end of august."
> > 
> > So, am just wondering what the status of that project is?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > -Jr
> > 
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> Hello John!
> 
> I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works,
> sometimes :) Just not now.
> I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week.
> Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm
> afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0.
> 
> I will let you and others to know when something will happen :)

Hi,

>From the code in the user/ed/newcons branch it seems that there is no
support for 256 colors at the moment. Is this planned? I have moved to
only using a console from X11 and I miss the additional colours. 

Thanks!
-sym