From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 09:24:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CDFE3 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:24:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691B88FC17 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from X220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q9K9OQLB026415; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:24:28 -0600 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:24:25 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: "Thomas Mueller" Subject: Re: 9.1 and intel graphics Message-ID: <20121020162425.4f1d8598@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <05.12.17144.D0B62805@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> References: <05.12.17144.D0B62805@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:24:34 -0000 Hi, On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:12:45 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > Full support for the HD3000 is in 9-stable and 9.1-Beta and all RCs. > > To use it you need to build X drivers and drm and the kernel with: > > WITH_NEW_XORG=YES > > WITH_KMS=YES > > in /etc/make.conf. > > > Specifically, the kernel and a few ports. graphics/drm and your > > org-drivers: xf86-video-intel, xf86-input-synaptics, > > xf86-input-mouse, and xf86-input-keyboard. Then just start X. Don't > > try loading the kernel module. It will be loaded by the startx. > > > > Finally, what happens when I leave x and want to go back to > > > console mode? > > > You don't If you try, your system will lock up. You need to shutdown > > from a window in X. Hopefully someone will implement switching back > > to console mode some day, but it has not happened, yet. > > How do you shutdown from a window in X if you're nonroot? Can you > have both root and nonroot windows simultaneously in X? I have all the while. You can also open a normal xterm and enter su to become root or start a xterm as root. It booth works. You are also able to start any other program as root. Erich