I'm running 10-stable with AMD64. My graphics card is AMD RV610 Radeon HD 24000. I installed xorg with xf86-video-ati. The xorg server runs and terminates just fine, but I cannot get back to syscons. This seems to be the current state with this video card and 10-stable - according to wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG -the window/system seems to freeze, but I can blindly type commands. Since my card is RV610 and I am on 10-stable and using X.Org 1.12, it does not look like vt-switching is available to me. If that is the case, would I be able to build WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in 10-stable and have things work the old way? Or should I be able to use vt? Thanks, Mike Gass
Hi Michael> On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Michael Gass <mgass at csbsju.edu> wrote: > > I'm running 10-stable with AMD64. My graphics card is > AMD RV610 Radeon HD 24000. > > I installed xorg with xf86-video-ati. The xorg server runs > and terminates just fine, but I cannot get back to syscons.Sound like you are not using newcons https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons With the kernel mode setting drivers , and a few others , this is a known issue . Rebuild your kernel and give it a shot . It's not with out issues . I have a Hudson apu and the embedded Radeon doesn't like the kms code in FreeBSD or Linux 3.8 . It does however work in OpenBSD 5.5 . I have not examined it closely to see why as Free and Open use similar code derived from Linux 3.8.x .> This seems to be the current state with this video card > and 10-stable - according to > wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG > -the window/system seems to freeze, but I can blindly type commands. > > Since my card is RV610 and I am on 10-stable and using X.Org 1.12, > it does not look like vt-switching is available to me. If that > is the case, would I be able to build WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in 10-stable > and have things work the old way? Or should I be able to use vt? > > Thanks, > > Mike Gass > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Michael Gass wrote:> I'm running 10-stable with AMD64. My graphics card is > AMD RV610 Radeon HD 24000. > > I installed xorg with xf86-video-ati. The xorg server runs > and terminates just fine, but I cannot get back to syscons. > This seems to be the current state with this video card > and 10-stable - according to > wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG > -the window/system seems to freeze, but I can blindly type commands. > > Since my card is RV610 and I am on 10-stable and using X.Org 1.12, > it does not look like vt-switching is available to me. If that > is the case, would I be able to build WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in 10-stable > and have things work the old way? Or should I be able to use vt?As far as I know, that will work with vt(4). However, you must build a kernel with vt(4) instead of syscons(4). And it requires 9-STABLE, 10-STABLE, or newer.