From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 09:19:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 353A540C for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x235.google.com (mail-wg0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0594A03 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f53.google.com with SMTP id b13so383073wgh.40 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:19:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YX6YcMRcbYncrPXR1hDPaFC3aBN4s0nA4KeLtRtstP8=; b=zx6rFPaeRSHavzKA+Ix/UyPDWHj1tx5g4yTSlyvNVBBvPJVgHiuL9otdpGHNDTNFNy QBdMwF8VeOmfLbjoWKwNoOnET0tMqxsu05bFVG8C74Wv+ZJKiYX/zdaQlhqhjgiXqlpt njh7PbAzxJp90/t9/z3iCvvGeU/2tuKzCNmbH4IO2dB0+GD3BStLJXeGLBPDcHgRegMt 1TatXtp2gWc+Iw9Q4DfyTsrf5mSNNxb7WQ1/nUBZLCt4aRY+vfUxmmsXwvuyzNOB88af QWrEKqZAX80stetJrJeLGqeA1/knxnM0O4MCsf7CKwg01FKJ5J2nPo4wH+hREN70snhE /RpQ== X-Received: by 10.194.242.4 with SMTP id wm4mr61823988wjc.61.1415179194599; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.home (p578E04C3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.142.4.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l10sm15063982wif.20.2014.11.05.01.19.52 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:19:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: "Chris H" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default Message-ID: <20141105101951.48542120@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: References: <544E7679.7070207@FreeBSD.org> <54590B3E.2070701@dumbbell.fr> Reply-To: gljennjohn@gmail.com X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastienP=E9dron?= , freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:19:57 -0000 On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:01:41 -0800 "Chris H" wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:22:06 +0100 Jean-Sebastien Pedron > wrote > > > Hello! > > > > As announced a week ago, vt(4) is now the default console driver in > > 11-CURRENT as of r274085. > > > > You may have to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf. During > > boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will indicate what you need to do. > > > > The original HEADS UP mentioned several known issues. Among them, the > > following were fixed: > > > > o A video mode can be selected using the following tunable in > > /boot/loader.conf: > > kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1024x768" > > > > This only works when using a KMS video driver. It's not > > supported by the VGA backend. See vt(4) man page for further > > documentation. > > > > o The keyboard was not working when kbdmux(4) was disabled. This > > is fixed. > > > > o After loading a KMS driver, the text cursor was in the middle of > > the kernel messages. The problem was that the cursor position was > > not updated after the change in window size. This is fixed. > > > > Up-to-date information can be found on the wiki page: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > > > > If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can add the following line to > > /boot/loader.conf: > > kern.vty=sc > > > > Thank you to everyone who tested and reported problems! Please continue > > to do so, especially if you find the need to go back to syscons. > > No. Thank _you_! :) > > I was unable to determine from the wiki. But do all these wonderful > new features also work with the nVidia blob, under vt(4)? > I'm currently building a new 11-CURRENT from the 10-26 iso, as I write > this, and was wondering if the graphics mode at higher resolutions was > now possible using the nVidia blob. > No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob. That requires a KMS (in-kernel) driver. -- Gary Jennejohn