Re: kern/49710: i386 radeondrmkms panic when starting Xorg

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/49710: i386 radeondrmkms panic when starting Xorg
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:56:22 -0600 (CST)

 On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Michael van Elst wrote:
 
 >  What happens when you restart X at that point (e.g. kill it with
 >  ctrl-alt-backspace if that is enabled and let xdm restart it) ?
 
 I normally don't start xdm on this machine when testing -current (at
 least not automatically with a known buggy situation), but I gave it a
 try.
 
 Although the output of 'ps -ax' indicated that all was running, the
 operations performed by "Xsetup_0" (set root window color and launch
 'xconsole') were not manifested on the display.  (The framebuffer console
 cursor did disappear.)  The xdm greeter widget never appeared.
 
 The keyboard seems to be unresponsive.  One cannot switch to another
 virtual terminal when acceleration is enabled.  Attempting to get 'xdm'
 to restart the server by pressing <ctrl-C> three times did not appear
 to do anything.  "TerminateServer" via "ctrl-alt-backspace" does not
 function at all--whether with or without acceleration--even with
 
 Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "DontZap" "False"
 EndSection
 
 defined in "xorg.conf"
 
 When acceleration is disabled, 'xdm' works and one may freely switch
 virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-Fn.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not work.
 
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