DragonFlyBSD Now Has KMS Console Support

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 6 June 2015 at 11:50 AM EDT. Add A Comment
BSD
With work on porting the Linux Intel and Radeon DRM/KMS drivers progressing, within DragonFlyBSD Git they've made the first "hacky steps" for making their system console work with the KMS drivers.

Similar to the Linux functionality of the past several years for having beautiful virtual terminals at the native monitor resolution, etc, DragonFlyBSD's syscons is receiving the KMS treatment when the i915 and Radeon drivers are loaded.

The code landed in Git yesterday for DragonFlyBSD. However, it's not currently enabled by default. Those wishing to play around with the KMS console/syscons support will need to set the kern.kms_console tunable within their loader.conf.
Add A Comment
Related News
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers
NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added
NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week
Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries
Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds
MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes