After the latest update xorg-server (1.12.4_5,1) fails to start
Jukka Ukkonen
jau789 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 07:37:34 UTC 2014
So, vt it is going to be. And as I thought, there was still something more to change.
Luckily rebuilding the kernel isn't a biggie. Just some 12 minutes build time and a reboot.
Thanks!
--jau
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> On 20 Apr 2014, at 13:03, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at coosemans.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:20:54 +0300 Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
>> Previously I said the new Xorg started working OK after dropping
>> drm.ko and radeon.ko. It seems this was only partial truth, though.
>>
>> Later I realized the new Xorg does not exit gracefully when started
>> using startx.
>
> Xorg is fine, it's syscons that does not support KMS. You need to
> switch to newcons if you want a working console.
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
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