Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 21:31:25 -0400 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Super Biscuit <super_bisquit@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg and powerpc: tty switching causes unresponsive screen Message-ID: <4BDCD5ED.3020606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <642407.28421.qm@web110101.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <642407.28421.qm@web110101.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Super Biscuit wrote: > If this post to the mailing lists seems to be off topic, please do not allow it through. > > Has a fix or work around for the following been issued as of yet: > When switching vttyX after starting xsession causes unresponsive monitor- blank output. > Starting an xsession using a predefined path in .xinitrc or by adding a /usr/local/bin/path to /usr/local/bin/startx also results in unresponsive monitor. > This is an issue with the Rage 128 Open Firmware ROMs. If X exits, the FCode ROMs are seemingly not capable of fully restoring the state the way the Radeon and nVidia ones are. To fix this, you would need to spend a great deal of time understanding the quirks of the Rage 128 ROM, or to write a native framebuffer for it. In either case, you probably don't need to switch VTs that often. -Nathan
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