Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:02:15 +0200 From: Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr> To: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org> Subject: (bad ) experience with vt on a ThinPad T530 Message-ID: <539D8B47.4080305@orange.fr>
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Hello all, I tried to switch my ThinkPad T530 to using vt/newcons instead of sc/syscons. Some technical data: - Intel Ivy Bridge (amd64) with integrated graphics - 1600x900 screen - 10-STABLE r265894 + ports r353739 (both May 11) My findings: - loading the i915kms module (+ drm2 + iic*) at boot (loader.conf) gives a black screen and a locked machine. - letting startx load i915kms at al, when a keyboard map is loaded at boot which defines codes > 255 (e.g. the unicode for Euro is 8364), has the effect of segfaulting the Xorg server, just after the initialization of the kbd Xorg module. - idem, but with a "standard" keyboard map loaded (fr.iso.acc), gives a running Xorg, but when switching back to console, the only useful part of the screen is the (640x480 ?) upper left corner of the screen, with the contents of the current screen buffer duplicated in 2 columns at the right. Anyway I cannot work with a 8x16 font at 130 dpi .. What is more surprizing is that before trying this switch, I got a perfectly working setup on a test computer: - i386 with "ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)" - 1920x1200 scren - 10-STABLE r265894 + ports r353739 (same as T530) - vt 8x16 default font replaced with a 16x32 font (src patched) - radeonkms et al loaded at boot and I can use my "unicode" custom keyboard map (the same as on the T530) without problem. Hoping someone could give me a hint, CBu
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