From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 10:16: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B4B37B403; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7FHJvC01080; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108151719.f7FHJvC01080@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Baldwin Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:40 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:19:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 consol > e) > you end up with. "serial" : "graphics" :: "comconsole" : "vidconsole" Bah. I know that. I misinterpreted "in the SRM" to mean "in the loader under SRM". Brain fart, sorry. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message