From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 7:26:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2BC37B405 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:26:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C1443FC1 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:26:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Lucky Green' , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:26:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 > From: Lucky Green [mailto:shamrock@cypherpunks.to] > > 1) Is there a way to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from ever > switching into > this different video mode, thus allowing me to continue to use the > built-in serial terminal? The machine is a headless server, I > don't care > if video works as long as I can pull out a serial terminal. enable the comconsole option, set the baud rate. As for the colours etc, our machines have BIOS that do that too... I added a: set console=comconsole \ What's all this about then? It resets the console (to fix up the bios \ colour change), and outputs a banner. cr .( ^[c) to the start of /boot/loader.rc which is a vt100 reset code. This isn't a general purpose solution, but works for me. Our BIOS also changes the colour just as it exits, leaving it black on black :) --don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message