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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: CURRENT: Intel Haswell KMS support?
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Carl Johnson wrote:

> Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:
>
>> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Gregory Orange wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/01/15 23:07, Warren Block wrote:
>>>>> There is also hw.vga.textmode=1, which causes vt to remain in
>>>>> text mode until a switch to graphics is made, like starting X.  This can
>>>>> make booting faster, mostly due to text scrolling.
>>>>
>>>> sysctl -a doesn't show this setting - is there a way to confirm this
>>>> is in place?
>>>
>>> Other than looking for that entry in /boot/loader.conf, not that I know.
>>
>> You can type 'kenv hw.vga.textmode' to see the current value.  You can
>> also change it, but I don't know if that changes anything after boot.
>> Some kenv values seem to be in sysctl, but I don't understand the
>> relationship.
>
> I just noticed that I sent this to Warren instead of to the list.  Sorry
> about that Warren.

I didn't notice, but somehow now I feel less special. :)