newcons comming

[Doug Ambrisko]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:18:47PM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
| Hello fellow hackers!
| 
| I finally reach the point when I can work with newcons instead of
| syscons on my laptop. Yes, I know it still buggy and have a lot of
| style(9) problems. But we really have to get it into HEAD and 10.0 to
| enable shiny new Xorg features, drivers, etc.

I built the kernel from:
	base/user/ed/newcons/
and installed it on my new ThinkPad T530 with Intel graphics chip.
In general it works better since now syspend and resume works with
and without X.  However, as with my prior ThinkPads I need to switch
out of X to suspend and resume.  So I have vidcontrol -s 1 in my
/etc/rc.suspend and vidcontrol -s 9 in /etc/rc.resume.  If I don't
the display ends up corrupted but somewhat working.

I had to kldload i915kms in /etc/rc.local since having it there at
boot via /boot/loader.conf resulted in the system not booting.  I need
i915kms for X so I don't need to use vesa mode.

The FreeBSD logo on boot is interesting but I'd prefer seeing 
FreeBSD boot messages to see what is happening.  I'm not sure if
there is a flag to disable that since I have played with it much.

However, on a whole it is much improved since with i915kms and
newcons when in X via vesa I couldn't switch to a non-X display
since it was blank.

Thanks,

Doug A.