Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 19:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241940270.99230@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241705050.56720@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205240639590.1335@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> <20120524201132.e11d5a0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241514200.99230@fledge.watson.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241705050.56720@wonkity.com>
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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.
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