Does VT switching work yet?

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thorbsd

I see in this post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=187947&postcount=3 that
Turning off X results in a black screen. While there is no screen, the system returns to syscons and commands typed into the keyboard, i.e. it's possible to restart X11.
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I have a snapshot from August 27th (after the 9.1 rc-1 announcement), and VT switching did not work. The screen would go black on my laptop, but it wouldn't respond to any keystrokes. I don't think that the system was hung or locked up because pressing the power button (just a press - not holding it down until it down until it powered off) caused the system to reboot.

It's been a month since I last updated and I was curious if VT switching with a visible console was implemented yet.
 
thorbsd said:
I don't think that the system was hung or locked up because pressing the power button (just a press - not holding it down until it down until it powered off) caused the system to reboot.
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It shouldn't reboot if you do that. It should gracefully shutdown and power off.
 
SirDice said:
It shouldn't reboot if you do that. It should gracefully shutdown and power off.
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Sorry, I meant to say shutdown. Regardless, I assume that the system isn't locked up when I try exiting X or switching to a console. I'm just curious if in the last month the code has been updated so that you now have a visible console and not just a black screen (that for me didn't seem to accept any keyboard input).
 
This is due to KMS (kernel mode setting) which is still not complete for FreeBSD. But some work has already been done - only Xorg driver works.
 
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