Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:49:41 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printing boot probe messages Message-ID: <476D4E35.7000808@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20071222103723.GC15935@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <476AF132.4080304@chuckr.org> <20071221074556.GA69673@cicely12.cicely.de> <476C85A0.7050402@chuckr.org> <20071222103723.GC15935@cicely12.cicely.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > OK, when I run conscontrol, it tells me I am using the dcons console. I > looked at the man page for concontrol (and I've been gone from FreeBSD so > long, I wasn't even awaare of conscontrol at all) and it informed me I am > using the dcons device. I am not aware of any others, I was hoping that if > there were such, there would be references to them in either the dcons or > conscontrol man pages, but no lock. Is dcons good enough? You understand I > would be ecstatic if it wasn't 9and if I could set it to something else, and > thereby get my booting messages back.) I checked my kernel config file, it > does indeed list the dcons device. > >> dcons has no output as such, it depends on further support. >> dcons for example allows console access over firewire. >> You likely want consolectl as your configured console device. >> I can just repeat myself: you must have missing some device hints, >> since the device as such works fine but is not used as console. >> See if conscontrol lists consolectl as available console devices, >> if not than you are surely missing a hint if yes then you have >> explicitly configured you console to be on dcons. I wish you'd given more examples, because the concontrol man page is extremely unhelpful, but I will see if I can prompt you into it, by providing what comes out of my running conscontrol: TCSH-april:root:/home/chuckr:#105-12:23>conscontrol Configured: dcons Available: dcons,gdb Muting: off If you use the "list" parameter to conscontrol, the same printout results. I *think* you might be saying that I should see something dealing with consolectl, nothing resu;ting even from man -k consolectl. I did find the file /dev/consolectl, but I can't figure out the use of it. Hmmm, I found a hint on an old email, hinting that the command "conscontrol should have been used to add a console. I just tried using the ctl-alt-f1 combo to get onto ttyv0. I did a tty, this proved I was in fact on ttyv0, so i tried to do a "conscontrol add /dev/ttyv0, but what came back was "device not configured". I think I'm close here, so what should my console device be? > > Have any other ideas, I'm really listening here. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHbU41z62J6PPcoOkRAhYiAJ0WMob4kfBZFautZJLbbrOm6HVdzQCgjRJ3 +BYHMNjaRLrYjANPsizWeck= =aUxK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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