ports/156405: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati driver: no hardware rendering

[Thomas Mueller]

> I really suggest adding yourself to the operator account. That will allow
> you to shutdown without a root login.

> Entering Fn+F1 and "shutdown -r now" has no chance of working as X is still
> running on vty0, so you have no shell to receive the command. You can try
> entering a CTRL-C to kill X or logout of the X session instead of Fn+F1?
> Maybe Fn+F2 and log in or log into that vty before starting X.
--
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

With NetBSD 5.x screenblanking the text console, and not able to come back to a text console from X, I worked almost exclusively as root.

I didn't take NetBSD seriously for multiuser.

Before going into X, I remembered to have an extra console logged in as root, just so I could Crtl-Alt-Fn to that console and type
shutdown -r now.

NetBSD by default gives four vty consoles, in contrast to 8 in FreeBSD and 6 in Slackware Linux.

Tom