Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:01:41 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "=?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVu?= =?UTF-8?B?UMOpZHJvbg==?=" <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default Message-ID: <f52865dc55453b0079591a1782e72a77@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <54590B3E.2070701@dumbbell.fr> References: <544E7679.7070207@FreeBSD.org>, <54590B3E.2070701@dumbbell.fr>
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On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:22:06 +0100 Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> 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. Thank you again, for all your work on this! --Chris > > -- > Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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