Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:17:14 +0100 From: symbolics@gmx.com To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons? Message-ID: <20130921161714.GA82948@lemon> In-Reply-To: <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org> References: <523A81BA.7030903@reynoldsnet.org> <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org>
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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@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@ 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > 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
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