[HEADS UP] xorg version switch in CURRENT

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 12/17/13 14:07, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:20:53PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> To get VT switching when using KMS drivers (ATI, Intel) please use
>> newcons: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons or if that is not possible,
>> force the use of the vesa driver for xorg.
>>
> It appears that newcons is unusable with a static kernel.
> Adding 'device drm2' and 'device i915kms' to my kernel
> config results in a quick death to 'make buldkernel'.
>

You may not want it either. The radeon KMS driver, if loaded with 
newcons before X, replaces your console with snow (or at least it did 
the last time I tried it).
-Nathan