Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:18:50 -0500 From: Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firewire blues Message-ID: <1108786727.35807.905.camel@beach> In-Reply-To: <20050218233942.GA76830@galgenberg.net> References: <420731DD.3050206@syskonnect.de> <420B938D.2040708@syskonnect.de> <1108352789.6309.9948.camel@palm.tree.com> <20050216110200.GA913@galgenberg.net> <1108755156.7621.8860.camel@palm.tree.com> <20050218233942.GA76830@galgenberg.net>
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On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:39, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> 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.
Strange - are you sure that you have not accidentally have
options DCONS_FORCE_CONSOLE=1
in your config file?
( Or forgot to config or make depend after removing it?)
Works on 5.3 release for me. (Default loader.conf ...)
> > 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.
There is a tunable hidden in dcons_crom that causes the dcons console to
be selected.
Try adding boot_multicons and hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console to
/boot/loader.conf:
boot_multicons="YES"
hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=0
> > 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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