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Date:      Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:30:50 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=C3=B8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: console in 11.0-ALPHA4
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On 20 June 2016 at 12:45, Trond Endrestøl
<Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
>
> If you want textmode like in the old days, add this line to
> /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hw.vga.textmode="1"

One note, in textmode vt(4) is limited to cp437. The console still
uses Unicode internally but has a fixed lookup table to map to the
cp437 character set.



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