Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:46:57 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X and console Message-ID: <20201128224657.c74a7553.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <X8KRRo/f/sVUzBpQ@www.stare.cz> References: <X8KRRo/f/sVUzBpQ@www.stare.cz>
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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. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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