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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:54:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: How to get a mouse in vt(4) -- NEWCONS
From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
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> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Chris H wrote:
>
>> I also read that hw.vga.textmode is available. However sysctl
>> hw.vga.textmode returns unknown oid.
>
> It is a boot-time-only setting for loader.conf.
>
>    hw.vga.textmode=1
>
> boots in text mode.
Ahh, I see. Thank you very much, Warren, for the reply. :)

--Chris

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