can't switch tty HD 5770

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Friday 28 January 2011 08:10 pm, LOL wrote:
> 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.

Recent Linux distros do KMS.

Jung-uk Kim