AMD Radeon (ARUBA): partial success

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Joerg Wunsch <j at uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > The only thing that doesn't work is switching back to a text console.
> > The screen "freezes" then, still displaying the current graphics
> > image, until I switch back to the virtual terminal the X server is
> > running.  It continues normally from there.
>
> Just for the record:
>
> Upgraded to 10-stable.  Using the "VT" kernel config (new VT console
> driver), switching to the text consoles (well, actually graphics now,
> I guess) works.  They are dog slow (compared to syscons), but at least
> offer an option for a login bypassing X11.
> --
> cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL


Note that a fix to  bug that can cause a crash with vt was patched a few
days ago in HEAD and is scheduled to be MFC'ed to 10-STABLE in just a few
days. I have only seen reports of it triggering a crash on a resume from
suspend.

I have been running with the patch (three lines) since last Friday and have
exercised it quite a bit. Seems to fix the issue. The patch to
/sys/dev/vt/vt_core.c can be made by hand and the kernel rebuilt with
-DNO_CLEAN very easily.

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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com