Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:17:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <lars@larseighner.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, questions@freebsd.org, doug@fledge.watson.org Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205242010560.58349@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> 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: > >> On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: >>>> On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >>>>> >>> And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version >>> of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in >>> both directions). >>> >>> portdowngrade x11/xorg -s >>> :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.tw.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs >>> >>> (Maybe you need to be more specific as "x11" is only a metaport.) >> >> 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. It is definitely a problem for (at least some of) those with Intel chips, but at least for me the VESA driver did not fix the tty switching problem. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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