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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:37:05 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   no vidconsole when dcons is in the kernel at boottime
Message-ID:  <20070205153705.3ec83da5@Magellan.Leidinger.net>

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Hi,

what I want to have is that I can add dcons/dcons_crom loaded as a
module (loader.conf) and to get the output of the rc script to the
screen as usual.

When I load dcons as a module at boottime, I don't text output after
the kernel messages at boot. To get this working I tried to set
  console="vidconsole,dcons,gdb"
in loader.conf (/boot/defaults/loader.conf says "vidconsole" is the
default). I also did set boot_multicons and also tried
kernel_options="-D", to no avail. No messages from the rc scripts and
Xorg eats my CPU without accepting input from the keyboard in gdm (the
usb mouse works).

Changing the default console via "conscontrol set vidconsole" or "...
console" or "... consolectl" remotely results in an error message from
conscontrol (no such device). Doing the same with "add" instead of
"set" also doesn't work (error messages).

What's the problem? Stupid operator or bug in dcons/console?

Bye,
Alexander.

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interrupt configuration error
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