Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:59:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Rezny <mrezny@hexaneinc.com>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/156405: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati driver: no hardware rendering Message-ID: <83574.30239.bm@smtp106.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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>From my previous post and Niclas Zeising's response:
> > By the way, another problem I had with NetBSD was the text console screen blanking after 30 seconds inactivity and not coming back until I could find my
> >way in the dark to a root command prompt and type
> > screenblank -u
> This could be a NetBSD specific issue maybe? As I said before, I had no
> trouble on my laptop running 'startx' from the black console, so I
> assume shutdown -r now works as long as I have a root shell. I also
> could shut down cleanly with the power button, using acpi. All this on
> FreeBSD.
The screen blanking after 30 seconds was NetBSD-specific, didn't happen under FreeBSD (through 8.2) or Linux (through Slackware 13.0) on the same hardware.
Graphics card was ATI Rage 128 (r128).
With recent builds of NetBSD releng-6, text console does not blank on its own, but comes back very dim after returning from X.
With NetBSD 5.1_STABLE, I could type "shutdown -r now" in the dark or startx /path/to/appropriate-xinitrc-file, that worked.
So I guess I would try that in FreeBSD WITH_NEW_XORG too, based on what I did with NetBSD on old computer.
In FreeBSD WITH_NEW_XORG, I never explicitly kldloaded i919kms.ko , forgot to mention that on last post.
I don't really know the logistics of how I'd connect two computers by Firewire, might not be able to find long-enough cable.
Would the other computer have to be running FreeBSD?
I remember OS/2 long ago offered a kernel debugger, maybe it was part of OS/2 Developer Connection, that worked through a serial connection to abother computer, which did not have to be running OS/2; DOS would have been good enough. I never tried that.
To start X with specified conf file, something like
startx /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.icewm -- -config xorg.conf.vesa
Just for comparison, upgrading pkgsrc X on NetBSD releng-6 resulted in mouse pointer moving right-to-left and back but not up and down.
That was this year, about June 20, which is where that installation rests now. modular-xorg-server version was/is 1.12.4
As has been pointed out, upstream Xorg development is Linux-centric. I guess everything else is Tier 2 or lower priority.
Tom
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