9.1 and intel graphics

[Schaich Alonso]

On 2012-10-20 (Saturday) 11:12:45 Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Full support for the HD3000 is in 9-stable and 9.1-Beta and all RCs.
> > To use it you need to build X drivers and drm and the kernel with:
> > WITH_NEW_XORG=YES
> > WITH_KMS=YES
> > in /etc/make.conf.
> > 
> > Specifically, the kernel and a few ports. graphics/drm and your
> > org-drivers: xf86-video-intel, xf86-input-synaptics, xf86-input-mouse,
> > and xf86-input-keyboard. Then just start X. Don't try loading the
> > kernel module. It will be loaded by the startx.
> > 
> > > Finally, what happens when I leave x and want to go back to
> > > console mode?
> > 
> > You don't If you try, your system will lock up. You need to shutdown
> > from a window in X. Hopefully someone will implement switching back to
> > console mode some day, but it has not happened, yet.
> 
> How do you shutdown from a window in X if you're nonroot?  Can you have
> both root and nonroot windows simultaneously in X?
> 
> Tom
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Hello,

While you are not able to see anything on the screen, the system is still 
operational after X11 shutdown (or tty switch). Therefore you can still type 
input to the (invisible) command line or connect to that system via 
telnet/ssh/rlogin ...

By default the system shuts down gracefully if you hit it's power button. If 
you're using GDM/KDM you can also use their shutdown options. Eventually it 
might crash during shutdown though (at least over here). 

Alonso