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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:33:57 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>,  x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X doesn'r work after system update
Message-ID:  <533444E5.3070104@rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <533434F5.4090802@FreeBSD.org>
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On 3/27/2014 10:25 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:

> KMS doesn't require vt(9): it will work happily with syscons. The
> downside of using syscons is the inability to do VT switch (ie. using
> Ctrl+Alt+Fx to switch to a text console, or getting a console back when
> exiting from X).

	Which is something I very much want.

> Check your kernel config and remove any builtin "drm" or "radeon"
> modules (and any kernel video drivers).

	Please define "kernel video drivers"?  I removed "device drm" and 
"device radeondrm".

> The appropriate module will be loaded automatically by X.Org.

	If they're system-built kernel modules, I'd rather load them explicitly 
so that's obvious.


				Robert Huff






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