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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:30:39 -0500
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: newcons comming
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2BDi1rvjS4hemge_EDf=t8qXa7Ms51T6pEgre%2BoyrCFbw@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20131025151847.2a1b83de93335040797ceaf1@ddteam.net> <20131031210138.GC30328@ambrisko.com> <CAN6yY1tbvrq3CWojke=37iKAkPZXTGmSDLskZoGornyDApPTNg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 4 November 2013 02:16, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent news. I'm really looking forward to newcons. Guess it's time to
> move my T520 to 10-Stable (or Beta)

I'm running a Newcons kernel on my Thinkpad X220 now and it's working
well, with a few minor quirks.  This is with the X-related packages
rebuilt with WITH_NEW_XORG= and WITH_KMS= in /etc/make.conf.

> 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.

I log in and running startx.  i915kms does auto-load.

> Does newcons require VESA? If not, you should be able to remove it from
> your kernel to get suspend/resume working from X.

It does not use VESA - it's removed from GENERIC on the newcons
branch.  Suspend and resume generally works on my X220 now, from X or
console.  There are some outstanding issues, for example the X display
sometimes ends up corrupted after resume; stopping and restarting X
fixes that.



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