Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 16:59:19 -0500 (EST) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find an Xorg that will do tty switch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312071651490.49795@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20131207212354.5f8fa3cc@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312071507370.49795@fledge.watson.org> <20131207212354.5f8fa3cc@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, RW wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 15:15:09 -0500 (EST) > doug wrote: > >> I have two laptops (Dell and HP) and two work stations (Compaq and >> Gateway) none of which would allow switching ttys with FreeBSD 9.1 >> and Xorg 7.5.1. So I updated the Gateway to 9.2 and xorg 7.7. It >> works fine. >> >> Encouraged, I updated the HP laptop. Switching ttys on this machine >> results in a locked state where the system responds to nothing and >> the video degrades to noise similar to what you get running the wrong >> driver. > > If you using Intel KMS it's a known problem that you can't switch to a > virtual terminal once xorg is running - it hasn't been implemented yet > AFAIK. Ah - thank you
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