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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2014 20:40:47 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Back to Console with [ctrl] + [alt] + [Fn]
Message-ID:  <20140531134047.GA5519@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405300906430.7178@wonkity.com>
References:  <201405301430.s4UEUfFt006899@systemdatarecorder.org> <53889B5C.6090808@pukruppa.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405300906430.7178@wonkity.com>

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Warren Block wrote:
> 
> Switching from KMS to the console did not work because the old console 
> driver, syscons, did not know how to deal with it.  The console is 
> there, but not visible.
> 
> The new console driver, vt(4), is in 9-stable and 10-stable.  It must be 
> built into the kernel instead of syscons.  There is a sample kernel 
> config file called VT in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf (or i386, if you 
> prefer).
> 
> It works for me with both Intel and Radeon hardware.

Unfortunately vt(4) has many drawbacks and missing features as
compared to syscons(4). You cannot change encoding to anything other
than UTF-8, you cannot easily change screen font etc etc.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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