Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG)

Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 3 14:31:14 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:29:11AM +0200, Jean-S?bastien P?dron wrote:
> On 03.10.2014 11:08, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> > I'm running new X.Org with sc, and I have been doing so for quite
> > some time, and I have no problem with console switching. Works
> > perfectly. I'm using nvidia-driver-331.67_1
> 
> I forgot to explain why it works with syscons: the NVIDIA driver (like
> old Intel/AMD UMS drivers) takes care of restoring the GPU in a state
> that syscons can use (eg. VGA text mode on a PC).

What is the impact of the proposed change on nvidia users on 9.2 or 9.3?
I don't want to update to 10.x yet.

Thanks,

Gary


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