Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:15:08 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org, emax@FreeBSD.org, "Maksim Yevmenkin" <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> Subject: Re: kbdmux/syscons/vidcontrol interacts badly with X/radeon Message-ID: <790a9fff0603151515r4d6c9bbdr2313945246409f99@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060315223501.GA1438@galgenberg.net> References: <20060315223501.GA1438@galgenberg.net>
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On 3/15/06, Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > this pertains to 6.1-PRERELEASE and is caused by devd calling 'syscons > restart' on keyboard attach. More specifically it is due to > allscreens_flags=3D"-c blink 80x60" in /etc/rc.conf. This will then call > vidcontrol and this totally screws up my X11 display (radeon driver). > Killing X11 will _usually_ result in a normal console, but this is not > always the case. Clearing allscreens_flags is also a possibile > workaround. > > Also, on normal boot, vidcontrol will be called twice, once in normal > startup, then via kbdmux/devd/syscons restart. > > Possible solution: Don't do a full restart, but refactor the keyboard > code in syscons into a separate function and only call this function. > > I hope this can be implemented quickly and MFC'ed before 6.1. Thanks! > You mean something like r1.15 from -CURRENT: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/syscons >From the cvsweb, it looks as though this change wasn't MFC'd to RELENG_6, but the change to /etc/devd.conf to use 'setkeyboard' method was MFC'd Mar 7th to RELENG_6. -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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