From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 23:50:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D14106564A for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 23:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2738FC1A for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 23:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4ONoYrZ077828 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id q4ONoYJi077825 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20120524201132.e11d5a0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 24 May 2012 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 23:50:41 -0000 On Thu, 24 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> >> That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not >> that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect >> to the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: >> >> alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal >> alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one >> work >> alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop >> >> In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged >> anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my >> case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any >> PRs with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. >> Google finds a few similar complaints. > > The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might > be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver. Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope: Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310]" BusID "PCI:0:1:0" -------------------- Driver = xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_4 ____________________ vgapci0@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x030000 card=0x2aca103c chip=0x98021002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' device = 'AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI' class = display subclass = VGA Not sure what else might be of interest. 9.0 works pretty well so once every couple of weeks rebooting is a small price as 9.0 and Xorg xorg-7.5.1 supports the NIC and video. On 8.2 no either net and the Vesa driver rendered this system pretty useless FreeBSD-wise on 8.x.