PowerMac G4 graphics issue

[Joe Nosay]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:07:08AM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > > Looks like `relax_mmap' is defined in powerpc/ofw/ofw_syscons.c, but
> I've
> > > removed "device sc" from kernel config in favor of "device vt".  Does
> it
> > > mean that X11 + ATI card + Newcons is not supported yet?  Can it be
> easily
> > > fixed, or I have to go back to syscons(4) for now?  Thanks,
> >
> > Unless you are going to do a dual boot -- it can be done with two
> instances
> > of FreeBSD on powerpc if you load the kernel from the openfirmware/boot
> > loader prompt -- you may need to go back to using syscons.
>
> Dualbooting (more accurately, booting into alternative kernel) is not a
> problem per se, but I'd like to play with UTF-8 on the console, which is
> possible now with vt(4).  Of course it's not as important as having X11
> working, but in the long run we'd better have it fixed, esp. considering
> that vt(4) is going to replace syscons(4) in not very distant future.
>
> ./danfe
>

Hey, danfe, is the kernel option for that "options    VT"? I'd like to try
that out myself on my amd64 laptop.