From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 13 20:12:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253C92E5; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:12:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53441E8C; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rnote.ddteam.net (44-80-135-95.pool.ukrtel.net [95.135.80.44]) (Authenticated sender: ray) by smtp.dlink.ua (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98129C492D; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:12:18 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:12:10 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Lars Engels Subject: Re: FreeBSD-head hang when shutdown by ACPI with Intel GPU and new Xorg and SandyBridge Message-Id: <20130713231210.4b92aaf2.ray@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130712160547.GP88288@e-new.0x20.net> References: <1601171.hWXcdG7J9D@notebook.alkar.net> <22CEA4A9-5C63-4561-8663-42F8623F1D97@FreeBSD.org> <20130712160547.GP88288@e-new.0x20.net> Organization: FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kevin Oberman , "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD Current , David Chisnall 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: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:12:27 -0000 On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:05:47 +0200 Lars Engels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:26:06AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:01, "Lundberg, Johannes" > > wrote: > > > > >> As the KMS code does not switch the display mode back, once X > > >> with KMS > > > starts, you can't get a console back. > > > > > > Is there any solution for this in the works? > > > > 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. > > Is there a rough ETA for this great improvement? I hope first things to test will be available on begin of the August. But it is just hope yet :) Thanks. -- Aleksandr Rybalko