Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 20:32:36 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should 9.3 carry a warning about NEW_XORG Message-ID: <20140705103235.GB7680@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BhARs%2BwxhOuP-09tcPgzerU00_ARy=o4OyKec9azTOkQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <53B69B88.4060803@gmail.com> <E1X32XF-000PnU-QG@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <CAPyFy2BhARs%2BwxhOuP-09tcPgzerU00_ARy=o4OyKec9azTOkQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--WhfpMioaduB5tiZL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, 15:31 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > In HEAD syscons(4) and vt(4) are now both compiled in by default in > the GENERIC kernel. Syscons remains the default at the moment; you > can set the loader tunable kern.vty=3Dvt to choose vt(4) instead. Vt is > selected automatically if booting via UEFI on amd64. >=20 > Both stable/10 and stable/9 require a recompile to use vt(4). The > plan is to merge these changes from HEAD in time for 10.1, but 9.3 > will not have them. So, perhaps 9.3 should remain "opt in" like 9.2 and not build NEW_XORG by default? > Note that vt(4) enables vty switching from Xorg, but WITH_NEW_XORG > generally should not depend on vt(4). X should work fine, just > without the ability to switch back to a vty. If WITH_NEW_XORG fails > on certain hardware I think it'll be independent of the use of sc(v) > vs vt(4). Thank you, Ed, for taking the time to explain all that. I had been under the impression that NEW_XORG depended on vt(4), which was why I modified my 9.3 kernel. sc(4) worked fine after my initial upgrade, vt(4) works fine; it's just X that doesn't. Perhaps my "X no longer works" scenario is due to "certain hardware"? Is there a list somewhere of hardware on which NEW_XORG will not work, so that folks running 9.2 with that hardware can set WITHOUT_NEW_XORG BEFORE they upgrade to 9.3 and save themselves grief? --=20 John Marshall --WhfpMioaduB5tiZL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlO31EMACgkQw/tAaKKahKKEsACgwXYI74a+srKvvc87sw1tZcmU ebwAn2JIo1aHEE8gxdxH3j6edw0g3x+L =ndRF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WhfpMioaduB5tiZL--
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