From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 04:45:34 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DF47463 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 04:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter02.peakinternet.com (filter02.peakinternet.com [207.55.16.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E19836436E for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 04:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([207.55.16.111]) by filter02.peakinternet.com ({c0e096ac-ab76-477d-8a9d-eab3e47a6d30}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20150107044159126 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:41:59 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61C81D4673 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54656D473C for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmail-mta01.peak.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id g9tV1zTyN7_r for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailproxy-lb-05.peak.org (mailproxy-lb-05.peak.org [207.55.17.95]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20446D4673 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlj by elk.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iRR-0005o6-7Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:41:57 -0800 From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT: Intel Haswell KMS support? References: <20141231203011.51831755.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20141231200235.GA3957@unixarea.DDR.dd> <20141231214835.0f46afc4.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <54A52D47.10306@qeng-ho.org> <54A9F80A.2010507@calorieking.com> <54AA4CD9.50808@qeng-ho.org> <20150105084400.GA2822@unixarea.DDR.dd> <54AA5078.7030403@qeng-ho.org> <54ABE49F.30201@calorieking.com> <87d26ro8jn.fsf@elk.localnet> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:41:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87d26ro8jn.fsf@elk.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:20:44 -0800") Message-ID: <877fwznqwa.fsf@elk.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:45:34 -0000 Carl Johnson writes: > Warren Block writes: > >> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Gregory Orange wrote: >> >>> On 05/01/15 23:07, Warren Block wrote: >>>> There is also hw.vga.textmode=1, which causes vt to remain in >>>> text mode until a switch to graphics is made, like starting X. This can >>>> make booting faster, mostly due to text scrolling. >>> >>> sysctl -a doesn't show this setting - is there a way to confirm this >>> is in place? >> >> Other than looking for that entry in /boot/loader.conf, not that I know. > > You can type 'kenv hw.vga.textmode' to see the current value. You can > also change it, but I don't know if that changes anything after boot. > Some kenv values seem to be in sysctl, but I don't understand the > relationship. I just noticed that I sent this to Warren instead of to the list. Sorry about that Warren. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org