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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:32:02 +0200
From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>
To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] xorg version switch in CURRENT
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:12:05 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/17/13 14:07, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:20:53PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> >> To get VT switching when using KMS drivers (ATI, Intel) please use
> >> newcons: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons or if that is not
> >> possible, force the use of the vesa driver for xorg.
> >>
> > It appears that newcons is unusable with a static kernel.
> > Adding 'device drm2' and 'device i915kms' to my kernel
> > config results in a quick death to 'make buldkernel'.
> >
> 
> You may not want it either. The radeon KMS driver, if loaded with 
> newcons before X, replaces your console with snow (or at least it did 
> the last time I tried it).

Nathan, on which h/w you did that test? 3 different systems with Intel
graphic works fine for me.

> -Nathan
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