Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 23:16:53 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: newcons comming Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tbvrq3CWojke=37iKAkPZXTGmSDLskZoGornyDApPTNg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131031210138.GC30328@ambrisko.com> References: <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> <20131031210138.GC30328@ambrisko.com>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:18:47PM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > | Hello fellow hackers! > | > | I finally reach the point when I can work with newcons instead of > | syscons on my laptop. Yes, I know it still buggy and have a lot of > | style(9) problems. But we really have to get it into HEAD and 10.0 to > | enable shiny new Xorg features, drivers, etc. > > I built the kernel from: > base/user/ed/newcons/ > and installed it on my new ThinkPad T530 with Intel graphics chip. > In general it works better since now syspend and resume works with > and without X. However, as with my prior ThinkPads I need to switch > out of X to suspend and resume. So I have vidcontrol -s 1 in my > /etc/rc.suspend and vidcontrol -s 9 in /etc/rc.resume. If I don't > the display ends up corrupted but somewhat working. > > I had to kldload i915kms in /etc/rc.local since having it there at > boot via /boot/loader.conf resulted in the system not booting. I need > i915kms for X so I don't need to use vesa mode. > > The FreeBSD logo on boot is interesting but I'd prefer seeing > FreeBSD boot messages to see what is happening. I'm not sure if > there is a flag to disable that since I have played with it much. > > However, on a whole it is much improved since with i915kms and > newcons when in X via vesa I couldn't switch to a non-X display > since it was blank. > Excellent news. I'm really looking forward to newcons. Guess it's time to move my T520 to 10-Stable (or Beta) . Since I'm not running 10, I may simply be clueless. If so, please ignore the rest of this. Are you booting directly to X or using startx from the console? In either case, I think that i915kms should auto-load at the start of X, so you should not need to pre-load it. Does newcons require VESA? If not, you should be able to remove it from your kernel to get suspend/resume working from X. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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