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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r270647 - in head: etc/defaults share/man/man4
 share/man/man5 share/man/man7 share/man/man8
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:13:30AM +0000, Stefan Esser wrote:
> Author: se
> Date: Tue Aug 26 08:13:30 2014
> New Revision: 270647
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/270647
> 
> Log:
>   Add references to vt(4) and the configuration files in /usr7share/vt where
>   appropriate (i.e. where syscons was already mentioned and vt supports the
>   feature). Comments in defaults/rc.conf are updated to match the contents
>   of the modified man-page rc.conf(5).
>   
>   Reviewed by:	pluknet, emaste
>   MFC after:	3 days
> 

<...>

> Modified: head/share/man/man4/splash.4
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/man/man4/splash.4	Tue Aug 26 06:31:52 2014	(r270646)
> +++ head/share/man/man4/splash.4	Tue Aug 26 08:13:30 2014	(r270647)
> @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bin"
>  .Xr vidcontrol 1 ,
>  .Xr syscons 4 ,
>  .Xr vga 4 ,
> +.Xr vt 4 ,
>  .Xr loader.conf 5 ,
>  .Xr rc.conf 5 ,
>  .Xr kldload 8 ,
> @@ -285,6 +286,8 @@ code.
>  .Sh CAVEATS
>  Both the splash screen and the screen saver work with
>  .Xr syscons 4
> + or
> +.Xr vt 4
>  only.
>  .Sh BUGS
>  If you load a screen saver while another screen saver has already
> 

That information is incorrect; vt(4) has only very limited splash
screen support and doesn't interface with splash(4) for that. Screen
saver support even is entirely nonexistent with vt(4) to date.

Marius