Syscons resurrected
Peter Grehan
grehan at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 21 02:09:40 PST 2003
I've put up a new kernel and loader, and syscons mods, at
http://www.freebsd.org/~grehan/kernel
/loader
/syscons.diff
/syscons.new.tgz
and done some minor updates on the install instructions to
reflect changes to the loader
http://www.freebsd.org/install.html
Some minor improvements on the previous syscons:
- the font size can be selected from the loader e.g.
OK set hw.syscons.fsize=8 / for 8x8
OK set hw.syscons.fsize=14 / for 8x14
The default is cp-437 8x16.
- The font can be changed at run-time using vidfont or vidcontrol -f.
The resolution can't be changed from what was selected at boot-time
- The default screen border is 1 char width. This can be changed
with the loader tunable hw.syscons.border, in units of chars.
- 'shutdown -h' and reboot now work thanks to Drew G.
I'll try and get a minimal ADB module coded so notebook users don't
have to plug in an external USB keyboard.
later,
Peter.
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