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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2014 16:26:05 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eric Roseman <Eric.Roseman@Colorado.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newcons wiki page
Message-ID:  <20140403202605.GI14379@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <201404032017.s33KHEUC010917@refuge.colorado.edu>
References:  <201404032017.s33KHEUC010917@refuge.colorado.edu>

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Eric Roseman wrote:
> The newcons wiki page (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons) Testing
> section says:
>=20
> To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, remove the vga and sc drivers, and ad=
d vt and vt_vga.
> #device        vga             # VGA video card driver                =20
> #device        sc                                                     =20
> device         vt                                                        =
     =20
> device         vt_vga
>=20
> This does not explain which file to edit. I'm guessing this is a well
> known or common file, but I'm not sure where these modifications should
> be made.
>=20

Thanks, I'll update it.

It is the GENERIC configuration file.  But, if you don't want to edit
that file, you can specify KERNCONF=3DVT on head/ or the stable/ branches
(not the releng/ branches) - it has all the bits for the vt driver.

Glen


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