Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:26:45 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Lucky Green' <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370102363F@mail.sandvine.com>
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> 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
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