Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:38:45 -0600 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: freebsd@edvax.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X and console Message-ID: <202011300138.0AU1cjpO007479@sdf.org>
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:46:57 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:04:54 +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
>> This is 12.2 RELEASE (amd64) on a Dell Studio 1535 (dmesg below).
>> It basicaly works, but I cannot swith between X and the console
>> and don't get a console back once X has axited.
>>
>> While my window manager (cwm, but it's the same with any other)
>> is runnig, ctrl-alt-fN does not take me to a console. Once the
>> window manager exits (in whatever way: "exit" in fvwm, killing cwm, ...)
>> the screen goes blank, with backlight on, but nothing else will happen.
>> In particular, it does not switch back to the console where I launched
>> startx and ctrl-alt-f1 ext will not take me to a console either.
>
>That is "normal", given how "great" vt is nowadays... ;-)
>
>In fact, it should be such a case that the consoles are there
>and they also work, it's just that you can't _see_ anything.
>
>
>
>> Mu user is in the wehhel group, if it makes a difference.
>
>It should also be a member of "video".
>
>
>
>> Full Xorg.log below; [...]
>
>Looks like you're using the VESA driver. Try to use the driver
>corresponding to your exact graphics hardware. Have both the
>KMS driver loaded as well as the X driver installed (X will
>load it automatically).
>
>Maybe the following resources will be helpful in combining
>all the relevant parts, It seems that you are missing some. ;-)
>
>https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
>
>https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>
>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html
>
>Use X without any configuration file (xorg.conf or partial
>files) for testing. Everything should be detected and configured
>automatically.
>
>My absolutely unbiased and unpolluted opinion: Say goodbye
>to text mode. Use X and its terminal emulators instead. It
>just works and doesn't stab you from behind. :-)
>
If only that lovely fantasy were true! See, for example, PR 247441.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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