From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 01:18:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD68106566C for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 01:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391FE8FC0A for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 01:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [71.20.75.102]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B72FC16B4A9; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:17:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:17:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighnerhome.com To: Warren Block 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 Cc: Polytropon , questions@freebsd.org, doug@fledge.watson.org 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: Fri, 25 May 2012 01:18:44 -0000 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