Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:10:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doug@fledge.watson.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241705050.56720@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241514200.99230@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205240639590.1335@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> <20120524201132.e11d5a0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120524211218.65830131.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205241514200.99230@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 24 May 2012, doug@safeport.com wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >>>> >> And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version >> of the port (may require recompiling a lot of dependencies in >> both directions). >> >> portdowngrade x11/xorg -s >> :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.tw.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs >> >> (Maybe you need to be more specific as "x11" is only a metaport.) > > That was such a great idea, I also just tried it. For me at least it is not > that alt-ctrl-Fn does not switch, it does. What is does not do is connect to > the monitor except for alt-ctrl-F9. So in the absence of a crash I can: > > alt-ctrl-F1 - get a blank screen with the monitor displaying no signal > alt-ctrl-F2 - same thing sometimes required (for me) to make the next one > work > alt-ctrl-F9 - back to my desktop > > In the event of a crash I am fairly far up the creek. No errors are logged > anywhere. I installed 9.0-RELEASE #0 and then did a pkg_add for Xorg. In my > case I would not think there is anything to backup to. I did not see any PRs > with this symptom. A similar one was deemed user error as I recall. Google > finds a few similar complaints. The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver.
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