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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:29:34 +0200
From:      Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: AMD Radeon (ARUBA): partial success
Message-ID:  <20140331202934.GA72722@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20140320140642.GD30506@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20140320140642.GD30506@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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I wrote:

> The only thing that doesn't work is switching back to a text console.
> The screen "freezes" then, still displaying the current graphics
> image, until I switch back to the virtual terminal the X server is
> running.  It continues normally from there.

Just for the record:

Upgraded to 10-stable.  Using the "VT" kernel config (new VT console
driver), switching to the text consoles (well, actually graphics now,
I guess) works.  They are dog slow (compared to syscons), but at least
offer an option for a login bypassing X11.
-- 
cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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