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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:49:49 -0700
From:      "R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@monkeypox.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vt(4) and geli(8)
Message-ID:  <535165BD.1010909@monkeypox.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404181026430.12069@roadkill.tharned.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404181026430.12069@roadkill.tharned.org>

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On 04/18/2014 08:36, Greg Rivers wrote:
> The new vt system console looks really nice.  But on hosts that have 
> geli encrypted devices that prompt for the passphrase at boot, no 
> keyboard input reaches geli.  The keyboard doesn't appear to be dead, 
> as the caps-lock and num-lock keys toggle; geli just doesn't receive 
> any input. This is on 10-STABLE amd64 built from yesterday's sources. 
> "hw.vga.textmode=1" doesn't make any difference.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>

I run encrypted ZFS with vt(4) on -CURRENT right now and I've not had 
any issues with entering my passphrase. There might be a bug fix that 
ray@ hasn't had a chance to merge from current just yet.



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