Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410150907060.68373@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20141015144925.GC3963@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20141015144925.GC3963@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, William Bulley wrote: > According to Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> on Wed, 10/15/14 at 10:34: >> >> Does it really lock up, or is it just that text console does not display >> anything? Test by typing startx again. If that works, use vt(4): >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons >> That might require updating to 9.3 and the newer version of xorg. > > D'oh! Stupid typo. I recently upgraded to 9.3-STABLE and rebuilt > all my ports from source. > > And, yes, I had WITH_NEW_XORG=true in my /etc/make.conf file before > starting the rebuild of all my ports. > > Are you saying that (given all the above that I have done), this new > problem that I have encountered can be eliminated by putting vt(4) in > my kernel config file, rebuilding my kernel and then rebooting? If you are using a custom kernel, yes. GENERIC now contains both sc and vt, so vt must be selected by adding kern.vty=vt to /boot/loader.conf.
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