From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 9:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CE537B40F; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA19848; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200108150928.f7F9SH409336@mass.dis.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Aug-01 Mike Smith wrote: > > [Terry blathers] >> > Surprisingly, setting "vidconsole" in the SRM didn't make >> > my TGA work in FreeBSD. 8-p. > > 'vidconsole' is the x86 loader console driver. Under SRM, there are no > console options (because the platform doesn't give you any). Errr, there is a CONSOLE SRM variable that can be set to either "serial" or "graphics" that determines which SRM console (and thus boot and kernel console) you end up with. "serial" : "graphics" :: "comconsole" : "vidconsole" -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message