Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:47 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-head hang when shutdown by ACPI with Intel GPU and new Xorg and SandyBridge Message-ID: <20130712160547.GP88288@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <22CEA4A9-5C63-4561-8663-42F8623F1D97@FreeBSD.org> References: <1601171.hWXcdG7J9D@notebook.alkar.net> <CAN6yY1vZmHAGy=R-MyP71bh-H4npvfRKSUPNrBnh3-2GHurs3Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAASDrVm3eNYMvpJ-bCGve9Yq3ZgzNNYP5cD-0zFjrBTKfM6D-g@mail.gmail.com> <22CEA4A9-5C63-4561-8663-42F8623F1D97@FreeBSD.org>
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--Df9iGvjWRAzg/a8v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:26:06AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:01, "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice= =2Eco.jp> wrote: >=20 > >> As the KMS code does not switch the display mode back, once X with KMS > > starts, you can't get a console back. > >=20 > > Is there any solution for this in the works? >=20 > Yes. ray@ is currently being funded by the FreeBSD Foundation to > improve Newcons compatibility with KMS. The Newcons framework is > designed to improve layering in the console. The machine-dependent > part simply provides a framebuffer interface, the machine-independent > part provides the terminal emulator (this also means things like > unicode in the console will work, as will higher-resolution consoles). > It's currently used on a few non-x86 platforms, but it wasn't a > priority for x86 because the PC BIOS text console mostly works and > people who want a better terminal can just run X. It's now become a > priority because of the KMS integration with X.org. Once this work is > completed, we will switch to a new X.org by default and will use the > KMS interface within the kernel for selecting the video mode. =20 Is there a rough ETA for this great improvement? --Df9iGvjWRAzg/a8v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlHgKVsACgkQKc512sD3afhz9QCgkYHgZg/N0xcphDKjqPYHx2mL tfwAn21uXD+QLDxLl0yTLdi3t75tRmlN =2UVT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Df9iGvjWRAzg/a8v--
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