Can't switch tty'
Jung-uk Kim
jkim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 25 19:51:16 UTC 2011
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 12:48 pm, LOL wrote:
> Hi guys.
> On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE,
> -RELEASE) everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome
> by packages or not it does not make any difference. When I boot
> with
> gnome_enable="YES" , and gdm start, when I try to change tty, on
> every tty, its a black screen and my monitor tell me, power saving
> mode enable until I switch back to gdm. I installed the
> xf86-video-ati driver and I have an ati radeon HD 5770.
>
> PS: I try to recompile with the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU knobs to get a
> newer libdrm but it doesn't change anything.
It looks this problem was fixed in the vendor source. However, it
won't be easy to back-port those particular changes because HD 6xxx
support was added and it looks quite intrusive. That means, you have
to wait for the next release, unfortunately.
Jung-uk Kim
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