From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 12 16:05:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CE4D09; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43DF1DDF; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7193A6A6002; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r6CG5nCV061125; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r6CG5lq5060665; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:47 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: David Chisnall 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> References: <1601171.hWXcdG7J9D@notebook.alkar.net> <22CEA4A9-5C63-4561-8663-42F8623F1D97@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Df9iGvjWRAzg/a8v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22CEA4A9-5C63-4561-8663-42F8623F1D97@FreeBSD.org> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Kevin Oberman , "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:05:52 -0000 --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" 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--