New Xorg with vt, radeon, and 10-stable

[Mark Saad]

Hi Michael

> On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Michael Gass <mgass at csbsju.edu> wrote:
> 
> I'm running 10-stable with AMD64.  My graphics card is
> AMD RV610 Radeon HD 24000.
> 
> I installed xorg with xf86-video-ati. The xorg server runs
> and terminates just fine, but I cannot get back to syscons.

Sound like you are not using newcons

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons

With the kernel mode setting drivers , and a few others , this is a known issue . 

Rebuild your kernel and give it a shot . It's not with out issues . I have a Hudson apu and the embedded Radeon doesn't like the kms code in FreeBSD or Linux 3.8 . It does however work in OpenBSD 5.5 . I have not examined it closely to see why as Free and Open use similar code derived from Linux 3.8.x . 

> This seems to be the current state with this video card
> and 10-stable - according to 
> wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG
> -the window/system seems to freeze, but I can blindly type commands.
> 
> Since my card is RV610 and I am on 10-stable and using X.Org 1.12,
> it does not look like vt-switching is available to me. If that
> is the case, would I be able to build WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in 10-stable
> and have things work the old way?  Or should I be able to use vt?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Gass
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