Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 00:57:06 +0200 From: Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530 Message-ID: <CA%2ByaQw9Fpk55bK=BwtQR66AdbRbtk8=dMxZ60wUG7QiafNWtfA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2CF1Cp0WP2%2BU%2B=G%2BsePMBd9FxKADmshWiUi9O7EHZoH1Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2ByaQw86HqF64nh29iGB-rx3P4y6CM9%2Bc98iEH3XA2HVYGCmAg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2B7-Z5ihsi-MP06J_DTD_cOEkLJ1czishKC5L1JozEC-w@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2ByaQw-7sDf26K5yaFPybVsOcpPG0PQ23MdVKae5fVf%2BDh-ggQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2CF1Cp0WP2%2BU%2B=G%2BsePMBd9FxKADmshWiUi9O7EHZoH1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Allright, it seems that the kernel switched back to sysconsole. (kern.vty:
sc)
The wiki says that I should add this to the loader:
To enable Newcons on i386 or amd64, set the loader tunable kern.vty=vt.
I guess that I should do:
# echo kern.vty=\"vt\" >> /boot/loader.conf
2014-07-18 18:58 GMT+02:00 Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>:
> On 18 July 2014 12:36, Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I basically installed from a FreeBSD VT enabled ISO.
>
> Ok, it seems those are not available any longer.
>
> To confirm that you're actually using vt, check "sysctl kern.vty". It
> will report either sc, vt, or an error. If you get an error the
> kernel predates the addition of that entry, so check "sysctl
> hw.syscons" and "sysctl kern.vt".
>
--
Daniel
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