On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
| On 4 November 2013 02:16, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote:
| > Excellent news. I'm really looking forward to newcons. Guess it's time to
| > move my T520 to 10-Stable (or Beta)
|
| I'm running a Newcons kernel on my Thinkpad X220 now and it's working
| well, with a few minor quirks. This is with the X-related packages
| rebuilt with WITH_NEW_XORG= and WITH_KMS= in /etc/make.conf.
|
| > Are you booting directly to X or using startx from the console? In either
| > case, I think that i915kms should auto-load at the start of X, so you
| > should not need to pre-load it.
|
| I log in and running startx. i915kms does auto-load.
|
| > Does newcons require VESA? If not, you should be able to remove it from
| > your kernel to get suspend/resume working from X.
|
| It does not use VESA - it's removed from GENERIC on the newcons
| branch. Suspend and resume generally works on my X220 now, from X or
| console. There are some outstanding issues, for example the X display
| sometimes ends up corrupted after resume; stopping and restarting X
| fixes that.
Adding
vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/ttyv0
to /etc/rc.suspend and
vidcontrol -s 9 < /dev/ttyv0
to /etc/rc.resume fixed that for me.
Doug A.
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