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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Michael Gass <mgass@csbsju.edu>
Subject: Re: New Xorg with vt, radeon, and 10-stable
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Michael Gass wrote:

> I'm running 10-stable with AMD64.  My graphics card is
> AMD RV610 Radeon HD 24000.
>
> I installed xorg with xf86-video-ati. The xorg server runs
> and terminates just fine, but I cannot get back to syscons.
> This seems to be the current state with this video card
> and 10-stable - according to
> wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG
> -the window/system seems to freeze, but I can blindly type commands.
>
> Since my card is RV610 and I am on 10-stable and using X.Org 1.12,
> it does not look like vt-switching is available to me. If that
> is the case, would I be able to build WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in 10-stable
> and have things work the old way?  Or should I be able to use vt?

As far as I know, that will work with vt(4).  However, you must build a 
kernel with vt(4) instead of syscons(4).  And it requires 9-STABLE, 
10-STABLE, or newer.