Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:23:54 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find an Xorg that will do tty switch Message-ID: <20131207212354.5f8fa3cc@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312071507370.49795@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312071507370.49795@fledge.watson.org>
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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.
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