From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 21 16:17:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C982F9BB for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:17:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from symbolics@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65AE82682 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lemon ([80.7.17.14]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MDQUP-1V6hQV2kVJ-00GoKi for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:17:14 +0200 Received: by lemon (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 36C52EB264; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:17:14 +0100 (BST) 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> References: <523A81BA.7030903@reynoldsnet.org> <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130920022307.1bc503ee.ray@freebsd.org> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:mKJldNRI1vfOXoETAGTRF7x0m/lnqeZmGRTdpRN3XWVN0+s4Q7I muuhgUye2dplQHgPC8e9wRstVzezenGkY9q4wsZdyi3vbrBGYgTKA9f1fvkh/7EGfhhSA6Q WuQxkrrbyjo5bGEYYRqmvldE46ALeJ7++MiGuJtTMPgdo40vWvGkKfQSG7Jg8MfWzqY5rr/ lccvFoqJ7QsPOWiF4rEUg== X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:17:22 -0000 On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:23:07AM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700 > John Reynolds 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