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Subject: Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530
From: Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com>
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Allright, it seems that the kernel switched back to sysconsole. (kern.vty:
sc)

The wiki says that I should add this to the loader:
    To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, set the loader tunable kern.vty=vt.

I guess that I should do:
    # echo kern.vty=\"vt\" >> /boot/loader.conf



2014-07-18 18:58 GMT+02:00 Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>:

> On 18 July 2014 12:36, Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I basically installed from a FreeBSD VT enabled ISO.
>
> Ok, it seems those are not available any longer.
>
> To confirm that you're actually using vt, check "sysctl kern.vty".  It
> will report either sc, vt, or an error.  If you get an error the
> kernel predates the addition of that entry, so check "sysctl
> hw.syscons" and "sysctl kern.vt".
>



-- 
Daniel