svn commit: r53871 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Mateusz Piotrowski
0mp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 6 16:52:49 UTC 2020
Author: 0mp
Date: Thu Feb 6 16:52:49 2020
New Revision: 53871
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53871
Log:
Update FAQ use of "default console driver" to be vt(4), not syscons(4)
PR: 220015
Submitted by: pauamma_gundo.com
Reported by: salternate at gmx.com
Reviewed by: bcr
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22699
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Thu Feb 6 16:21:20 2020 (r53870)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Thu Feb 6 16:52:49 2020 (r53871)
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@
<answer>
<para>The default console driver,
- &man.syscons.4;, provides the ability to use a mouse
+ &man.vt.4;, provides the ability to use a mouse
pointer in text consoles to cut & paste text. Run
the mouse daemon, &man.moused.8;, and turn on the mouse
pointer in the virtual console:</para>
@@ -3770,23 +3770,11 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</pr
</question>
<answer>
- <para>When using &man.syscons.4;, the default console
- driver, build and install a new kernel with this line in
- the configuration file:</para>
+ <para>When using &man.vt.4;, the default console
+ driver, this can be done by setting the following
+ &man.sysctl.8;:</para>
- <programlisting>options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT</programlisting>
-
- <para>This can also be done by setting the following
- &man.sysctl.8; which does not require a reboot or kernel
- recompile:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0</userinput></screen>
-
- <note>
- <para>The above two methods are exclusive: The
- &man.sysctl.8; does not exist if the kernel is compiled
- with <literal>SC_DISABLE_REBOOT</literal>.</para>
- </note>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl kern.vt.kbd_reboot=0</userinput></screen>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@@ -4231,10 +4219,10 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</pr
</question>
<answer>
- <para>When using &man.syscons.4;, the default console
+ <para>When using &man.vt.4;, the default console
driver, &os; can be configured to support a mouse pointer
on each virtual screen. To avoid conflicting with X,
- &man.syscons.4; supports a virtual device called
+ &man.vt.4; supports a virtual device called
<filename>/dev/sysmouse</filename>. All mouse events
received from the real mouse device are written to the
&man.sysmouse.4; device via &man.moused.8;. To use the
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