newcons comming

[Sean Bruno]

On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:32 +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:45:32 +0200
> dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> 
> > Suppose that Newcons gets in quickly. I use a Radeon 9600 card. Will
> > I see something useful on my screen (with KMS and the new Xorg and
> > things like that), or will my screen be black?
> 
> Yup, you will get normal virtual terminal, but a bit bigger than
> 640x480. It is main reason why x11 team ask me to merge newcons ASAP.
> Newcons can use framebuffer provided by DRM.
> 
> Try it yourself.
> 
> WBW


So, I'm running NEW Xorg now and KMS with an NVidia card.  What should I
do to test this?  What are the expected results?

sean
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