On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Daniele Mazzotti <kappe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> thanks again for your precious help. The suspend mode is not working yet >> as VESA option is still in my kernel configuration. I wanted to wait before >> removing it as I was not sure that intel video driver would have worked. My >> intention was to have a working setup with intel and being able to switch >> amongst vt(s) before getting rid of vesa, as I would peferer having the >> possibility to switch amongst vt(s) than putting my laptop to suspend. >> >> By the way I have a 10-RELEASE therefore I suspect I will have to >> recompile the kernel with VT. Did I get you right? >> >> I googled a bit and it seems that the only thing I have to do is to add >> these devices to my kernel: >> >> device vt >> device vt_vga >> >> This is the source I am referring to: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons. >> Is this it? >> >> Cheers and thanks again, >> Daniele. >> >> > Maybe and maybe not. The wiki page needs updating. > > Look at /sys/ARCH/conf for a VT configuration. If it is there, just build > a kernel with: > # make buildkernel kernconf=VT && make installkernel kernconf=VT > (You probably want to add a reasonable -j option for your hardware to the > buildkernel.) > > If you don't have a VT config file, than just set the kern.vty=vt loadable > in /boot/loader.conf. No need to build a new kernel. > I just looked at teh repo an can say that just adding kern.vty=vt to /boot/loader.conf will work on head r 267965 or newer and 10-Stable r268366 or newer. Looks like this has not been MFCed to 9. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com >> >> 2014-07-26 8:14 GMT+02:00 Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com>: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Bykov Vladislav <> <envol...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:43:11PM +0200, Daniele Mazzotti wrote: >>>> > The error I get anytime I try to switch between terminals is the >>>> following >>>> > one " drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -22" >>>> This is okay, if you can't switch back to tty after starting Xorg in KMS >>>> mode using old syscons driver. There is already work going on with new >>>> driver, vt. I didn't test it though. >>>> >>>> At least, suspend is works now? >>>> >>> >>> Try adding kern.vty=vt to /boot/loader.conf. In recent 9-stable, >>> 10-stable, and head kernels, this is all it takes to switch to vt(4). If >>> you have an older kernel or are running any release, you will need to >>> rebuild the kernel using the VT configuration. The loader option may have >>> made 9.3, but I'm not sure. I don't believe vt(4) is available for 8. >>> -- >>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >>> E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-acpi-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
