can't switch tty HD 5770

[LOL]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday 28 January 2011 05:44 pm, LOL wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> > On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE,
> > -RELEASE) everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome
> > by packages or not it does not make any difference. When I boot
> > with
> > gnome_enable="YES" , and gdm start, when I try to change tty, on
> > every tty, its a black screen and my monitor tell me, power saving
> > mode enable until I switch back to gdm. I installed the
> > xf86-video-ati driver and I have an ati radeon HD 5770.
> >
> > PS: I try to recompile with the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU knobs to get a
> > newer libdrm but it doesn't change anything.
>
> [I answered it on X11 list few days ago but let me repeat here.]
>
> xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 does not support VT switching for your video
> controller.  I believe VT switching for UMS path will be fixed in the
> next release of xf86-video-ati.  Also, it has nothing to do with DRM
> because FreeBSD does not support KMS yet.
>
> Jung-uk Kim
>

Oh, sorry I didn't see that. But it's strange because on ANY recent
GNU/Linux system, with xf86-video-ati driver, I'm able to switch tty.