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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