keeping syscons -- how?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 22 October 2014 21:29, Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:
> Okay, once more, regardless of the merits, etc.
>
> At what version do I need to freeze to avoid vt and what xwindows must
> be frozen / rolledback to
>
> 1) keep vttys in text mode using cons25
> 2) allow switching between xwindows and vttys and vice versa

Likely FreeBSD-9. But you'll have to also freeze all the libraries and
applications.

However, vt supports 80x25 normal console mode with normal default VGA
fonts - it's just not enabled by default. So it should still be
supported.



-a