9.1 and intel graphics
Thomas Mueller
mueller23 at insightbb.com
Sat Oct 20 09:12:48 UTC 2012
> Full support for the HD3000 is in 9-stable and 9.1-Beta and all RCs.
> To use it you need to build X drivers and drm and the kernel with:
> WITH_NEW_XORG=YES
> WITH_KMS=YES
> in /etc/make.conf.
> Specifically, the kernel and a few ports. graphics/drm and your
> org-drivers: xf86-video-intel, xf86-input-synaptics, xf86-input-mouse,
> and xf86-input-keyboard. Then just start X. Don't try loading the
> kernel module. It will be loaded by the startx.
> > Finally, what happens when I leave x and want to go back to
> > console mode?
> You don't If you try, your system will lock up. You need to shutdown
> from a window in X. Hopefully someone will implement switching back to
> console mode some day, but it has not happened, yet.
How do you shutdown from a window in X if you're nonroot? Can you have both
root and nonroot windows simultaneously in X?
Tom
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