Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:51:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About the black screen (Otherwise solved) Re: All of a sudden, problems with X Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407221038300.80885@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <89139be6-93e5-40dc-b2e6-fe64588876b4@email.android.com> References: <20140722024643.GA29536@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722051423.0cf369b9.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140722040440.GA16353@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722061900.008b35db.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140722060749.5487612C10D1@mail.parts-unknown.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407220452330.93805@wonkity.com> <89139be6-93e5-40dc-b2e6-fe64588876b4@email.android.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, David Benfell wrote: > On July 22, 2014 3:54:28 AM PDT, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> >> The vt(4) console driver included with 10-stable and 9-stable solves >> this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > > This seems very cool. The money quote is "To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, set the loader tunable kern.vty=vt." Is this in loader.conf? Yes. > Also, I'm running 10.0 RELEASE. Do I need to upgrade to STABLE? Yes. vt(4) was only added a few weeks ago, long after 10.0-RELEASE.
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