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Date:      Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:17:42 +0200
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <pukruppa@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Back to Console with [ctrl] + [alt] + [Fn]
Message-ID:  <538B6E46.5050100@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <5388A13C.1010307@pukruppa.de>
References:  <201405301430.s4UEUfFt006899@systemdatarecorder.org> <53889B5C.6090808@pukruppa.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405300906430.7178@wonkity.com> <5388A13C.1010307@pukruppa.de>

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Am 30.05.2014 17:18, schrieb Peter Ulrich Kruppa:
> 
> 
> Am 30.05.2014 17:10, schrieb Warren Block:
>> On Fri, 30 May 2014, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>>
>>> Am 30.05.2014 16:30, schrieb Stefan Parvu:
>>>> Hi, What GPU you use ?
>>> Thanks for the hint: I have got a Radeon GPU and now, that I know what I
>>> have to look for, I find
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU2MDk
>>
>> Um, yeah, let's politely ignore that.
>>
>> Switching from KMS to the console did not work because the old console
>> driver, syscons, did not know how to deal with it.  The console is
>> there, but not visible.
>>
>> The new console driver, vt(4), is in 9-stable and 10-stable.  It must be
>> built into the kernel instead of syscons.  There is a sample kernel
>> config file called VT in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf (or i386, if you prefer).
> That ist even better! So I simply have to rebuild with KERNCONF=VT .
Hmm, o.k. - I rebuilt my base system an I seem to have newcons: At least
the letters look different and I can type funny letters like ÄÖÜ on the
console.
Also I can exit xfce4 (by clicking "Log Out") and return to console
which wasn't possible berfore either.

But [ctrl] + [alt] + [Fn] don't work :-(

> 
>>
>> It works for me with both Intel and Radeon hardware.
>> _______________________________________________



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