Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:23:07AM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700 John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.org wrote: Hello all, I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody mentioned that one of the problems where the console goes away once you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the tail end of august. So, am just wondering what the status of that project is? thanks, -Jr ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hello John! I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, sometimes :) Just not now. I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0. I will let you and others to know when something will happen :) Hi, From the code in the user/ed/newcons branch it seems that there is no support for 256 colors at the moment. Is this planned? I have moved to only using a console from X11 and I miss the additional colours. Thanks! -sym ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700 John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.org wrote: Hello all, I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody mentioned that one of the problems where the console goes away once you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the tail end of august. So, am just wondering what the status of that project is? thanks, -Jr ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hello John! I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, sometimes :) Just not now. I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0. I will let you and others to know when something will happen :) Thanks! -- Aleksandr Rybalko r...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:46:50 -0700 John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.org wrote: Hello all, I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody mentioned that one of the problems where the console goes away once you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the tail end of august. So, am just wondering what the status of that project is? thanks, -Jr ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hello John! I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, sometimes :) Just not now. There is currently no Haswell graphic support in Current. I've a new Dell Latitude E7240 with a Core i5 4200 and i915kms didn't attach to it. I added then support and managed to start the X server, but there were quite some changes necessary, e.g adding the ID and feature set to agp, i915 and drm2, plus some changes in registers etc. Perhaps it's better to directly import the latest version from the linux kernel? I also suffered some problems now with this version like I cannot shutdown the machine anymore. The display freezes (with my desktop background, not going black as expected without newcons) and what is worse there is no dump. I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0. I will let you and others to know when something will happen :) That sounds great. Greetings Michael ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?
On 09/19/13 16:23, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: Hello John! I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, sometimes :) Just not now. I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm afraid it will not be fully done to be shipped with 10.0. I will let you and others to know when something will happen :) Thanks! I'm currently running 9.x and have no plans (at the moment) to run -current or move to 10.0. I assume this will be MFC'ed (or whatever the current term is these days :) into 9x? Also for anybody in the know out there, I thought I'd understood from a thread about 6 weeks ago that fixed KMS support was going to be integral for getting haswell graphics to work with the intel X driver. Is there anybody out there (yet) that is running on a haswell system that has gotten the native driver to work? Right now I'm still stuck using the VESA driver. Is anybody working on it? I bought the system figuring that it was SO new that things wouldn't work so it wasn't much of a shock, but we're 3+ months into the life of the new hardware . just figured that there was probably work going on to make things supported, and if so can somebody share the progress made? Thanks, -JR ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what is the status of KMS support in newcons?
Hello all, I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody mentioned that one of the problems where the console goes away once you fire up X was that the console driver didn't support KMS, so you could never really successfully alt-Ctrl-bksp and kill X (or exit cleanly) and get back to your VT. Word was said that this problem was being worked on and hopefully would get brought in towards the tail end of august. So, am just wondering what the status of that project is? thanks, -Jr ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
