From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 03:21:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 438A11EE for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0946494D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 705 invoked by uid 0); 22 Oct 2014 03:21:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 682, pid: 700, t: 0.2751s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO noos.larseighner.com) (71.20.75.102) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:21:06 -0700 Received: by noos.larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@noos.larseighner.com; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:25:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:25:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighnerhome.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Keep using syscons -- how? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:21:30 -0000 What do I have to do or not do to keep being able to use syscons in VGA mode? Is there any way to keep the ability to switch between xwindows and syscons (in VGA i.e. text mode)? The command line is already useless in every Linux distribution I can find. Is that the way BSDs are all going? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266