Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:30:39 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: newcons comming Message-ID: <CAPyFy2BDi1rvjS4hemge_EDf=t8qXa7Ms51T6pEgre%2BoyrCFbw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tbvrq3CWojke=37iKAkPZXTGmSDLskZoGornyDApPTNg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> <20131031210138.GC30328@ambrisko.com> <CAN6yY1tbvrq3CWojke=37iKAkPZXTGmSDLskZoGornyDApPTNg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4 November 2013 02:16, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent news. I'm really looking forward to newcons. Guess it's time to > move my T520 to 10-Stable (or Beta) I'm running a Newcons kernel on my Thinkpad X220 now and it's working well, with a few minor quirks. This is with the X-related packages rebuilt with WITH_NEW_XORG= and WITH_KMS= in /etc/make.conf. > Are you booting directly to X or using startx from the console? In either > case, I think that i915kms should auto-load at the start of X, so you > should not need to pre-load it. I log in and running startx. i915kms does auto-load. > Does newcons require VESA? If not, you should be able to remove it from > your kernel to get suspend/resume working from X. It does not use VESA - it's removed from GENERIC on the newcons branch. Suspend and resume generally works on my X220 now, from X or console. There are some outstanding issues, for example the X display sometimes ends up corrupted after resume; stopping and restarting X fixes that.
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