[HEADS UP] xorg version switch in CURRENT

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:15:52AM +0200, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:07:56 -0800
> Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:20:53PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > >
> > > To get VT switching when using KMS drivers (ATI, Intel) please use
> > > newcons: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons or if that is not
> > > possible, force the use of the vesa driver for xorg.
> > > 
> > 
> > It appears that newcons is unusable with a static kernel.
> > Adding 'device drm2' and 'device i915kms' to my kernel
> > config results in a quick death to 'make buldkernel'.
> 
> Don't panic :)

No panic, here.

> drm2/i915kms/radeonkms can't be built as part of static kernel.
> at least no definitions for that (sys/conf/files or sys/conf/files.
> ${ARCH} should contain instructions which modules to include).
> 
> and newcons is unrelated here :)
> 
> You can try it with just preload modules.
> 1. Build/install kernel with vt and vt_vga.
> 2. reboot and break in the loader.
> 3. do: load i915kms
> 4. do: boot
> 

(Un)fortunately, I do not use modules.

-- 
Steve