Re: screen blanks after loading radeonkms (or i915kms)
On 19 December 2013 06:33, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On 19/12/2013 04:21, Ed Maste wrote:
>> On 18 December 2013 19:58, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We could also try making it play nice with VTs. Maybe enabling
>>> newcons helps. Also, there's some disabled WIP code in radeonkms
>>> which is aimed at this purpose (I haven't tested it).
>>
>> Restoring vty switching is one of the benefits that Newcons brings - I
>> would go ahead and enable it, and use i915kms.ko.
>
> Uhm not available in releng/10.0 :-(
>
> Do you think it's safe to backport this? If we put it in our kfreebsd-10
> package, we might be unable to keep it in sync with recent Newcons from
> HEAD later on.
>
> Is it planned for MFC to stable/10 after 10.0 is released?
Yes. There will be some additional development on Newcons in HEAD
still, but I expect to see it MFC'd (along with upcoming improvements)
to stable/10 as soon as feasible.
-Ed
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