NEW_XORG and vt(4) in stable branches

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2014-02-13 05:07, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> One question is whether vesa driver, with syscons, as a fallback, on stable/10 and 9, will enable NEW_XORG without nasty adverse effects.

It should be possible to use the vesa driver with WITH_NEW_XORG= without
problems, this would give you working VT switching.  However, vesa might
give you crappy resolution and probably crappy colors on some video
cards, as always with VESA.
> 
> I tried NEW_XORG on 9.2, or was it 9.1 (stable), trying to startx with either vesa or intel, hung the computer, I couldn't even run "shutdown -r now".

That sounds like a bug somewhere.

Regards!
-- 
Niclas