Failed to switch consoles in 9.0-RC3

[CeDeROM]

Hello :-)

When switching from Xorg (installed from package by portinstall) to console
I got this bad behavior and constantly beeping speaker. On the console,
when it switched, I got this message 3 times:

Failed to switch console (Invalid agrument)

There are no more messages or debug information to better describe the
problem sorry...

Best regards :-)
Tomek

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[Chuck Burns]

Known issue. KMS prevents console switching, still. KMS is not quite
ready for use, but works fine as long as you stay in Xorg


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[Tomek CEDRO]

Thanks for hint :-) For some reasons I need to have console usable
after/during xorg is active, for instance at the moment I have problems
with xfce4 and no console keeps me away from seeing what is wrong and even
getting back into xorg. This is why I don use WITH_NEW_XORG anymore because
is forced me to reboot on every issue :-(

[Lundberg, Johannes]

You can switch to the Vesa driver if you don't mind software rendering..
Johannes

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

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On 08.11.2012 17:53, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> Thanks for hint :-) For some reasons I need to have console usable
> after/during xorg is active, for instance at the moment I have
> problems with xfce4 and no console keeps me away from seeing what
> is wrong and even getting back into xorg.

Depending on the issues you have with XFCE, you should be able to dump
the content of the console while in X.Org by using the following command:
vidcontrol -P -H < /dev/ttyv0

This command dumps the whole console buffer (-P), including history (-H).

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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[Tomek CEDRO]

Thank you Jean-Sebastien, very useful hint with vidcontrol!! :-)

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