After the latest update xorg-server (1.12.4_5,1) fails to start

Tijl Coosemans tijl at coosemans.org
Sun Apr 20 10:03:43 UTC 2014


On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:20:54 +0300 Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
> Previously I said the new Xorg started working OK after dropping
> drm.ko and radeon.ko. It seems this was only partial truth, though.
> 
> Later I realized the new Xorg does not exit gracefully when started
> using startx.

Xorg is fine, it's syscons that does not support KMS.  You need to
switch to newcons if you want a working console.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons


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