CURRENT: Intel Haswell KMS support?

Carl Johnson carlj at peak.org
Wed Jan 7 04:45:34 UTC 2015


Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> writes:

> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> 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.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org



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