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Date:      Mon, 12 May 2014 22:57:56 +0300
From:      Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr>
Cc:        emaste@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFT vidcontrol for vt(4)
Message-ID:  <73450c57-bbfe-4b17-b43b-f9ae8bc8f951@email.android.com>
In-Reply-To: <5370E800.8040803@freebsd.org>
References:  <20140311162743.072870a9afd4f74fff9e99e8@ddteam.net> <5370CE34.8000905@orange.fr> <20140512171415.558dbcb68971d1db675ea39e@ddteam.net> <5370E47E.7030304@orange.fr> <5370E800.8040803@freebsd.org>

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On 12 травня 2014 р. 18:25:52 GMT+03:00, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On 05/12/14 08:10, Claude Buisson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What I have to do to get scrolling on every ttyvN ?
>>>>
>>>> The only way to get the system working in normal VGA mode (640x480)
>
>>>> (not loading
>>>> the drm2 and radeon kms modules by loader.conf) is by configuring 
>>>> the BIOS to
>>>> not do display expansion - which leads to the same ridiculously 
>>>> small font..
>>>>
>>>> And of course, kbdmux keeps being mandatory to be able to load a 
>>>> keymap.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I still remember. :)
>>>
>>
>> This could be noted in the newly born vt(4) man page ..
>
>Is there any reason not to have kbdmux be mandatory at this point? 
>Having it be non-optional would simplify a lot of code and most of the 
>code for the non-kbdmux case is heavily bitrotten at this point (see
>here).
>-Nathan

Looks like we should just add vt as of dependency to kbdmux.

Thanks.
WBW
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Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>





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