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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:57:51 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=C3=B8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vidcontrol(1) complains about Bad magic, in base/head, amd64, sc console, r268165
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Trond Endrest=C3=B8l <
Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:05+0200, Trond Endrest=C3=B8l wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:51+0200, Trond Endrest=C3=B8l wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it just me or is there something wrong with vidcontrol(1) in
> > > base/head, amd64, sc console, r268165?
> > >
> > > First, I had to specify absolute pathnames for the font8x16, font8x14=
,
> > > and font8x8 variables in /etc/rc.conf before vidcontrol(1) would load
> > > anything, and next, vidcontrol(1), when run by /etc/rc.d/syscons,
> > > complains about:
> > >
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt": No error: 0
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x14.fnt": No error: 0
> > > Bad magic
> > > vidcontrol: failed to load font
> "/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt": No error: 0
> > >
> > > I wouldn't rule out pilot error on my part, but r267957 worked
> > > flawlessly in this regard.
> >
> > I guess with both sc and vt in the kernel, line 220 of
> > usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c needs a slight adjustment.
>
> The same adjustment will be needed at line 150 of
> usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdcontrol.c.
>

I don't believe that building a kernel for both vt and sc is supported, so
I'm not surprised that it does not work.

I would like to know how you intend to use such a kernel. I'm not sure I
see a case where having both would be useful and it looks like keeping them
straight would be rather a problem.
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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