Hi Kevin, that is a good news but I have a RELEASE therefore if I am not wrong I should recompile my kernel. Did I miss something?
Cheers, Daniele. 2014-07-26 18:52 GMT+02:00 Kevin Oberman <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Daniele Mazzotti <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> thanks again for your precious help. The suspend mode is not working yet >>> as VESA option is still in my kernel configuration. I wanted to wait before >>> removing it as I was not sure that intel video driver would have worked. My >>> intention was to have a working setup with intel and being able to switch >>> amongst vt(s) before getting rid of vesa, as I would peferer having the >>> possibility to switch amongst vt(s) than putting my laptop to suspend. >>> >>> By the way I have a 10-RELEASE therefore I suspect I will have to >>> recompile the kernel with VT. Did I get you right? >>> >>> I googled a bit and it seems that the only thing I have to do is to add >>> these devices to my kernel: >>> >>> device vt >>> device vt_vga >>> >>> This is the source I am referring to: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons. >>> Is this it? >>> >>> Cheers and thanks again, >>> Daniele. >>> >>> >> Maybe and maybe not. The wiki page needs updating. >> >> Look at /sys/ARCH/conf for a VT configuration. If it is there, just build >> a kernel with: >> # make buildkernel kernconf=VT && make installkernel kernconf=VT >> (You probably want to add a reasonable -j option for your hardware to >> the buildkernel.) >> >> If you don't have a VT config file, than just set the kern.vty=vt >> loadable in /boot/loader.conf. No need to build a new kernel. >> > > I just looked at teh repo an can say that just adding kern.vty=vt to > /boot/loader.conf will work on head r 267965 or newer and 10-Stable r268366 > or newer. Looks like this has not been MFCed to 9. > > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired > E-mail: [email protected] > > > >>> >>> 2014-07-26 8:14 GMT+02:00 Kevin Oberman <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Bykov Vladislav <> <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:43:11PM +0200, Daniele Mazzotti wrote: >>>>> > The error I get anytime I try to switch between terminals is the >>>>> following >>>>> > one " drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -22" >>>>> This is okay, if you can't switch back to tty after starting Xorg in >>>>> KMS >>>>> mode using old syscons driver. There is already work going on with new >>>>> driver, vt. I didn't test it though. >>>>> >>>>> At least, suspend is works now? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Try adding kern.vty=vt to /boot/loader.conf. In recent 9-stable, >>>> 10-stable, and head kernels, this is all it takes to switch to vt(4). If >>>> you have an older kernel or are running any release, you will need to >>>> rebuild the kernel using the VT configuration. The loader option may have >>>> made 9.3, but I'm not sure. I don't believe vt(4) is available for 8. >>>> -- >>>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >>>> E-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
