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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:51:03 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Can't switch tty'
Message-ID:  <201101251451.07841.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinA57vpkpuNnzp6jQf5OsYw2SGwes780h6tsTOB@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <AANLkTinA57vpkpuNnzp6jQf5OsYw2SGwes780h6tsTOB@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 25 January 2011 12:48 pm, LOL wrote:
> Hi guys.
> On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE,
> -RELEASE) everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome
> by packages or not it does not make any difference. When I boot
> with
> gnome_enable="YES" , and gdm start, when I try to change tty, on
> every tty, its a black screen and my monitor tell me, power saving
> mode enable until I switch back to gdm. I installed the
> xf86-video-ati driver and I have an ati radeon HD 5770.
>
> PS: I try to recompile with the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU knobs to get a
> newer libdrm but it doesn't change anything.

It looks this problem was fixed in the vendor source.  However, it 
won't be easy to back-port those particular changes because HD 6xxx 
support was added and it looks quite intrusive.  That means, you have 
to wait for the next release, unfortunately.

Jung-uk Kim



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