Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:18:22 +0100 From: Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Feedback on FreeBSD 11 with VT/KMS enabled Message-ID: <CAMouGSZE=A4akMi79_zTjODyE6CFStbKYO8KAhep%2BRPEcm1nNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello,
just wanted to let you know that I just tested the VT images in FreeBSD's
ftp and default X.org packages on a couple of Intel systems and everything
works great!
KMS, VT, xrandr, everything seems to work out of the box. I've also tested
on a KVM/Libvirt system on Linux with a QXL display card, no modesetting
here, but X.org and the shell work fine, also with VT enabled.
The only strange thing I have is that X never starts in the VT resolution.
- The monitors on the Intel systems are 1600x900 (correct resolution in
VT), but X starts at 1024x768.
- The KVM VM does not have KMS but X starts at 1280x768 (!).
Apart from this glitch, everything else is fine.
As a side note, I was looking at a way to set my keymap and leave
hotplugging enabled without disabling Hald and fiddling too much with X
configuration. Web searches return a lot old and confusing answers; but by
looking at a Fedora system I discovered that is actually very easy.
Just create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with only this content:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection
This way, any keyboard attached to the system gets the correct layout.
Probably it's all obvious, but since I could not find this information
anywhere, maybe it should be added to the wiki.
Regards,
--Simone
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