Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:39:42 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> To: Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewire blues Message-ID: <20050218233942.GA76830@galgenberg.net> In-Reply-To: <1108755156.7621.8860.camel@palm.tree.com> References: <420731DD.3050206@syskonnect.de> <1107888844.6309.221.camel@palm.tree.com> <420B938D.2040708@syskonnect.de> <1108352789.6309.9948.camel@palm.tree.com> <20050216110200.GA913@galgenberg.net> <1108755156.7621.8860.camel@palm.tree.com>
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On Fri, 18.02.2005 at 14:32:36 -0500, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> Changing a line in the function dcons_modevent() (File
> sys/dev/dcons/dcons.c or dcons_os.c depending on your sources) should
> help you.
>
> #if __FreeBSD_version >= 500000
> - if (ret == 0) {
> + if (ret == 0 && dcons_consdev.cn_pri == CN_DEAD) {
> dcons_cnprobe(&dcons_consdev);
> dcons_cninit(&dcons_consdev);
> cnadd(&dcons_consdev);
> }
> #endif
Didn't work.
> As a work around you should also be able to set
> boot_multicons="YES"
> in your /boot/loader.conf file. (Not tested)
Didnt work either. I tried both and booted into single-user mode. There
was _no_ local console, only the firewire one.
> On a running system you can use conscontrol to change console devices.
This works, running conscontrol consolectl immediately switches to the
local console, but how am I supposed to run this command when booting
into singleuser? Can I somehow lower the priority of dcons?
Ulrich Spoerlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?
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