Bug 261914

Summary:	vt fails if a non-KMS xorg graphics driver is being used
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Stefan B. <sblachmann>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	emaste, grahamperrin, sblachmann
Priority:	---	Keywords:	vt
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Stefan B. 2022-02-13 00:54:27 UTC

This vt newcons bug is old, help-seeking users regularly complain about it on the FreeBSD forums, and I just don't understand why the bug still is there.

When used in graphics mode, switching from xorg to vt newcons results in a display of colored boxes.

When used in text mode (hw.vga.textmode=1), vt newcons is usable when switching to console. But, after exiting xorg, vt newcons fails until user switches between consoles using ALT-Fn, which makes vt newcons work again.

Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2022-02-13 02:49:05 UTC

(In reply to Stefan B. from comment #0)

> … complain about it on the FreeBSD forums, …

Please, can you link to one of the complaints? With a photograph, ideally.

Comment 2 Stefan B. 2022-02-21 18:34:46 UTC

See the photo in this forums post.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/can-not-suspend-system-automatically-wake-up.83300/post-547534

Of course, the blocks pattern slightly varies, depending what is in the buffer.