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Control-Alt-F1 and Control-Alt-F2 no longer work #61

Closed grahamperrin closed 8 years ago

grahamperrin commented 8 years ago

TrueOS-Desktop-12.0-CURRENT-08-01-2016-x64-USB.img installed to an Ergo Vista 621 notebook.

From https://github.com/trueos/trueos-core/issues/13:

Expected

System console (ttyv0), first virtual console (ttyv1).

Actual results

A very dark grey full screen with a momentary quarter screen of flashing colours (predominantly blue and red, as far as I can tell), then a non-blinking mid-grey underscore cursor on the very dark grey background.

In some cases there's no cursor.

Control-Alt-F9 returns me to the GUI that's severely bugged by https://github.com/trueos/trueos-core/issues/19.

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Issue with the DRM stack and using intel. …

mattmacy commented 8 years ago

This is a KMS bug, but TrueOS should probably just be auto-configuring scfb for your system.

@dumbbell can maybe comment

grahamperrin commented 8 years ago

… TrueOS should probably just be auto-configuring scfb for your system. …

For what it's worth, this notebook previously used intel-3d-enable without difficulty. The same notebook featured in https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/9

mattmacy commented 8 years ago

For what it's worth, this notebook previously used intel-3d-enable without difficulty. The same notebook featured in freebsd#9

I'm sure it did. However, it didn't support UHD out, Kaby Lake, Skylake, Broadwell, or half a dozen Haswell models. The initial KMS work for Ivy Bridge was done without any thought given to maintainability. So this work is largely a fresh start. That is why it took several years just to get a partial Haswell update.

Pre-SB hardware relies on the AGP code which doesn't mesh cleanly with the updated DRM code but is too old to justify a corresponding refresh. I'm hoping that @dumbbell can address your issues eventually.

grahamperrin commented 8 years ago

Thanks – and I hope that my earlier comment wasn't misconstrued as pushy.

(I have seen SCFB in use, but I have not yet got my head around modesetting and other recent developments in/around TrueOS Desktop. All very new to me.)

nomadlogic commented 8 years ago

I've actually used scfb quite a bit on a skylake system. video playback was not the best, but it was certainly usable for daily work uses (web browser + bunch of shells). I did the following to use it:

$ pkg install xf86-video-scfb

Then configured my "Device" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf like so:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "scfb"
EndSection

Hope this helps.

grahamperrin commented 8 years ago

With an installation of TrueOS Desktop that was performed on 2016-08-11, this bug is no longer reproducible.