GSoC proposition: Intel HD Xorg + console fixup, video acceleration if possible

[Niclas Zeising]

On 03/13/14 19:02, CeDeROM wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 03/12/14 18:08, CeDeROM wrote:
>>> My proposition is to fix the current Intel HD Xorg driver so we have
>>> console back again. Video hardware acceleration for Intel video
>>> drivers if possible.
>> This is being worked on, and is probably not suited for a GSoC project.
>> If you are interested in testing, please install FreeBSD 11 or A recent
>> FreeBSD-10-stable and add WITH_NEW_XORG= to /etc/make.conf and recompile
>> all xorg related ports. (..)
> 
> Hello Niclas! :-) On my FreeBSD-10.0-AMD64 now I cannot switch back to
> console after I launch Xorg with Inter driver. This was not the case
> in 9, where I could switch back to console, unless I specified
> WITH_NEW_XORG in make.conf. So I guess binary ports provided by pkg
> are already built with that flag set..?
> 

The binary packages for 10 and 9 are still the old version of xorg.  I
don't know why you can't switch back to the console after starting xorg.
 If you can send me the output of kldstat, as well as Xorg.0.log and a
list of installed packages I might be able to help more.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising